1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 652 Chu Lan
In mid-May, Qilu entered the summer heat a few days earlier than in previous years, with the temperature quickly soaring to 36 degrees Celsius. Even the cicada monkeys in the soil showed signs of breaking out of the ground ahead of schedule.

1992 was a very hot year. Not only was the weather hot, but people's hearts were also hot.

Therefore, it was easy for the Lanling Second Standard Device Factory to gather a group of enthusiastic workers.

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"Zhou Quanpeng, get out!"

"Zhou Quanpeng, get out here!"

"If you don't get out now, I'll break down this broken door of yours!"

Following waves of angry howls, the light green door opened and a middle-aged man in his forties walked out of the office. Under the gazes of several pairs of eyes waiting to watch the excitement behind the window, he walked to the front of the crowd with slightly heavy steps.

"During working hours, instead of working in the workshop, you are all blocking the way here and yelling. What a disgrace!"

Zhou Quanpeng glanced at the young faces and shouted in a deep voice.

But his slightly pale face undoubtedly showed that it was impossible for a person not to feel timid when faced with the clamor of hundreds of people.

A young worker in his thirties spat heavily on the ground: "What kind of bullshit leadership style are you pretending to have! What, you think you are so great after being the vice president of production for two or three months? Don't forget, you were a team leader of the production workshop half a year ago... You got promoted by sucking up to Dahua Company... Ugh, disgusting!"

The rest of the workers also started to curse: "That's right! If it weren't for that bullshit leadership accountability system, you could have stepped on our heads and become the vice president from a team leader!? You ungrateful thing!"

Anger flashed across Zhou Quanpeng's face. He took a deep breath and said loudly, "You should eat according to your ability. Everyone has seen how I rose to the position of vice president of production step by step... Besides, how could I be ungrateful?!"

The young worker spat heavily on the ground again: "How dare you ask such a question? I want to ask you, why did the workers in our third workshop only receive 127 yuan this month? Didn't you promise to raise everyone's salary to more than 200 yuan!?"

Seeing someone taking the lead, the crowd suddenly became noisy: "That's right, their third workshop still has 127 yuan, and our first workshop's salary this month is only 106 yuan, which is 11 yuan less than last month... Isn't this pure nonsense!"

Zhou Quanpeng held his hands until the noise in the field died down a little, then he said loudly: "I promise everyone, as long as everyone works hard, this year's salary will definitely be over 200 yuan. In addition, if the factory's performance is good, everyone will be given a satisfactory bonus every quarter."

After a slight pause, Zhou Quanpeng's tone was questioning: "But let's be honest, have you done your job well? "

"Why is it that the salary of the second workshop has exceeded 170 in the past two months, and there are additional bonuses, but you have not received any!?"

"Comrades! Don't forget that our standard parts factory now implements a link process system plus a departmental accounting system. To put it bluntly, the more you work, the more you get!"

"And do you want to go in and check your various statistical indicators for the past two months?"

"The overall yield rate of 17 types of nuts is less than 72%, and the yield rate of several self-locking nuts is even less than 50%. The cost of these waste products will be charged to each of your workshops... To be honest, if it weren't for everyone's morale, it would still be a big problem whether your salary this month could exceed 100!"

"Besides, the factory doesn't just punish everyone with one stick. There are 153 people in the first workshop and 141 people in the third workshop, nearly people in total. Why are only you people's wages deducted so much in the past two months, while others only have a few yuan or tens of yuan deducted, or even get full wages and bonuses?"

When the workers heard the word "yield rate", their morale suddenly weakened.

Now, each production department in the factory is scored as a group, and with process breakdown and accountability, even if the yield rate of the entire workshop is low, not everyone will have that much salary deducted.

It just so happens that Zhou Quanpeng was promoted step by step from a workshop team leader, and he knows everything about production and technology. It is not easy to find a lot of reasons to fool him like you fooled other leaders in the past, and you may get into trouble.

"Let's put the issue of wages aside for now. I can't argue with you about this. I just want to ask you, it's summer now, why did the factory stop supplying ice water and popsicles... The wages are so low, and even the original welfare benefits have been stopped, how can you let us survive!"

A female worker yelled angrily. If you didn't know, you would think this was not a standard device factory, but a steel plant that needed to operate under high temperatures.

Zhou Quanpeng turned his head to look at the office area behind him, and found that except for a few people standing at the door of their respective offices and watching, no one else came out. He felt a little chill in his heart.

But since the confrontation mode has been initiated, he, the vice president of production who was only a workshop team leader half a year ago, has to take the risk and sneer: "You are Liu Guifen from the first workshop, right? Do you know that the order delivery quota in the factory has not exceeded 75 since three months ago, and the delivery quota last month has dropped to 68.7%?"

"If this continues, Dahua may even cancel our factory's supply qualification!"

"Everyone has seen the production efficiency and yield rate of the factory. If we don't raise funds quickly and introduce more advanced equipment to improve the delivery capacity of various types of nuts as much as possible, once Dahua cancels its supply qualification, nearly a thousand people in the factory will be out of business!"

"But we need to ensure everyone's enthusiasm for work, wages cannot be delayed, bonuses must be paid, and living security must be provided. With our factory's delivery rate in the past few months, where will the money for replacing equipment come from?"

"Then we can only cut those unimportant benefits, save up enough money, and work together to overcome the most important difficulties at present!"

"Ask yourselves, whether it's ice pops, popsicles, or the milk provided in the cafeteria, are they really necessary?"

At this point, Zhou Quanpeng showed a trace of contempt common among technicians: "Besides, don't you know what kind of work style some of the employees in our factory have?"

"They came over with a thermos to get iced soda, and even licked their faces and carried half a box of popsicles home... How much money does the factory have to withstand such a waste of money!?"

The employee named Liu Guifen was stared at by Zhou Quanpeng, and her expression immediately became evasive. She muttered in dissatisfaction, "What are you looking at? I'm not the only one doing this. What's wrong with eating a few popsicles in the hot weather? Look how stingy you are. If you want to replace the equipment, you can get the money yourself. Why are you trying to make money from us... Bah! Capitalist!"

It is a common practice in state-owned enterprises to fleece employees from factories, but after the 1980s, this practice became more and more unscrupulous, and was no longer concealed.

Although everyone felt a little guilty at first, after seeing the factory turning a blind eye to this for a long time, they actually took it for granted. Even when Zhou Quanpeng, the vice president who had been in office for less than half a year, stopped providing unlimited supply of popsicles and ice water, many people became angry, and the vice president suddenly became a class enemy in their eyes.

Seeing that Liu Guifen, the most eloquent worker in the workshop, was suppressed, another male worker with a ruffian's attitude kicked the stone on the ground and said, "Mr. Zhou, we will talk about your arbitrary deduction of our wages and not supplying us with popsicles later. I just want to ask you one thing... Where did you get the guts to propose to close down the dozen or so small shops and hardware stores in front of the factory gate at the factory leadership meeting?"

"Do you know that those small shops are opened by the family members of the factory workers, just to supplement their family income? If you close the shops, they will be left with nothing!"

The male employee tilted his head and glanced at Zhou Quanpeng, then sneered and unbuckled his belt, holding it in his hand and walked forward: "Mr. Zhou, don't think you are great just because you are the vice president. You are deducting wages and closing the store. Since you don't want us to live, believe it or not, I will let you lie down too!"

In state-owned enterprises at that time, a position alone could not scare people. The young people who grew up in the factory did not take Zhou Quanpeng, the vice president of production with no background, seriously at all.

Seeing someone taking the lead, a dozen male employees immediately followed in the crowd, looking as if they were going to beat the person to death.

Zhou Quanpeng shuddered when he saw this. He turned his head in despair to look at the crowd still standing in the office area to watch the excitement. He gritted his teeth and just went for it: "Fuck your grandma Xie Shirong, do you think I'm afraid of you just because you're the factory director's brother-in-law?"

As he spoke, he stretched his neck forward and said, "Come on, don't use the belt, pick up a stone from the ground and smash it on my head. I'll be dead in two or three hits, and it'll save you the effort!"

Xie Shirong was frightened by Zhou Quanpeng's trick.

Beating someone is one thing, and seeing blood is another. Even if he doesn't take Zhou Quanpeng seriously, after all, he has the title of vice president. If something big happens, his brother-in-law, the factory director, will not be able to protect him.

For a moment, those who were just clamoring to teach Zhou Quanpeng a lesson were stunned, hesitating and not knowing whether to pull the belt in their hands. Seeing that Xie Shirong and others were intimidated, Zhou Quanpeng gritted his teeth and sneered: "Humph! Subsidize the family expenses? You can't survive if you close it? Xie Shirong, what's the matter with those canteens and hardware stores, and what is their relationship with you, your brother-in-law, and even those section chiefs and vice presidents? How many people in the factory don't know?"

"It would have been fine if you guys had secretly taken some raw materials and nuts and dumped them into those stores to sell as scrap, but what time is it now!?"

"The factory has been unable to deliver orders on time, in quality and quantity for several months in a row, and you guys are still doing this!?"

"Last month, your third workshop was scheduled to produce 6.2 nuts, and the raw materials were also supplied according to this number. Even if the overall yield rate of your third workshop is only 72%, then it should have produced 4.46 compliant nuts!"

At this point, Zhou Quanpeng's face began to twist: "But how many compliant nuts did your third workshop deliver last month?"

“There are only over 3!”

"Where did the missing twelve thousand nuts go?!"

"That's a full 1/3 less! How dare you do that!"

Zhou Quanpeng's face flushed as he roared, "Also, some important machine parts are lost in the factory all the time. The purchasing department always goes to the finance department to approve money in the name of urgent purchase of parts, and then they just take a stroll in the hardware store at the factory gate, and those parts are back. Moreover, the model and batch are exactly the same as the parts lost in the factory... You guys think everyone is blind!"

"The factory's order delivery rate has been low to begin with. We are shortchanging customers on one hand, and trying to collect money on the other hand... We can't buy new equipment, and we can't deliver the nuts in full. If Dahua doesn't renew our contract at the end of the year, we'll all be left with nothing!"

At the end, Zhou Quanpeng, who was in a rage, angrily glanced at the more than 100 people in front of him: "Idiots! A bunch of idiots!"

"To share the spoils, you must first be dirty before you can share the spoils!"

"If the factory can't be saved, all of you will have to go out and beg for food... Things are different now, don't expect the city to come forward to cover your losses like before!"

After being called an idiot several times in a row, Xie Shirong, who always thought he was the boss, suddenly became angry and rushed forward with his belt raised high: "Fuck you, Zhou, you are so shameless!"

As Zhou Quanpeng cried out in pain, there was a sudden chaos in the field...

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The next day, in the director’s office of Lanling Second Standard Device Factory.

A middle-aged man with a rather obese figure calmly put down the letter of introduction in his hand, glanced at the report document on yesterday's conflict on the table unconsciously, turned around and looked at the guest in the office with a smile: "Oh? Mr. Liao wants to recommend himself to become the executive vice president of our factory?"

A young man who looked less than 30 years old nodded modestly: "That's right."

The middle-aged man looked embarrassed. "Mr. Liao used to work in the policy research office of the neighboring province. He has a very impressive resume and a recommendation letter from the leader. Logically, we would be very happy if he was willing to work for a small company like ours. But...he is the executive vice president right away?"

He sighed heavily, his face full of confusion: "It's not easy!"

The young man glanced at him with a half-smile, and without further ado, he stretched out a finger and said, "We'll know if it's a mule or a horse after we take a look...Give me a month!"

The middle-aged man was stunned: "What?"

The young man brushed off the nonexistent dust on his trouser legs nonchalantly: "Give me a month, and I will give you full authority. I guarantee that the net profit of Lanling Second Standard Device Factory will exceed 700 million that month... If I can't do it, I will leave immediately!"

As he spoke, the young man smiled and added, "And this 700 million net profit revenue was achieved without making large-scale personnel adjustments, making no changes to production management, and without introducing new equipment... If Director Hu doesn't believe me, I can write a military order. With this military order, I won't be afraid of not having an explanation when my introducer asks about it!"

700! ?

And it’s pure profit revenue! ?
The middle-aged man couldn't help but gasp. This month's net profit is higher than the factory's net profit in the past year!
and……

No large-scale personnel adjustments, no strict production management, and no money spent on introducing new equipment?

Of course, the middle-aged people know the implication of this.
Hearing the other party mention the introducer and being willing to sign a military order, his eyes rolled a few times, and then he slapped his thigh and said, "Okay!"

After saying that, he immediately turned around, pulled out a stack of letter paper from the desk, and handed it over along with a pen. The meaning was self-evident.

Seeing that the young man was not pretentious and started writing quickly at the desk, the middle-aged man glanced at the resignation letter handed in by Zhou Quanpeng on the desk, sneered, took out a pen from the pen holder, and quickly signed his name on it!

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Two days later.

"Ok?"

Yang Mo finished reading a report that Zhuo Mali interrupted and frowned: "Lanling Second Standard Device Factory?"

Yang Mo tapped his index finger on the table unconsciously for a while, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I didn't expect that with a large production order from our Dahua Company, the first company to officially cancel the process responsibility system and leadership accountability system would be the company in Lanling."

"Haha... you're very quick and confident!"

After a moment of silence, Yang Mo asked, "How is Zhou Quanpeng now?"

Zhuo Mali thought for a moment and said, "He is still in the hospital. Although he looks miserable, his injuries are not serious... But he seems to have been hit hard. It is said that he plans to go to the south after he is discharged from the hospital."

Yang Mo hummed, "Send someone to express condolences, and then do some ideological work on him, asking him if he is willing to come to work at our Dahua Company... Judging from his past performance, Zhou Quanpeng's character and ability are still acceptable."

Zhuo Mali nodded, and then asked worriedly: "This matter is obviously aimed at you, and I'm afraid that the matter of Lanling Second Standard Device Factory is just the beginning... What are your plans now?"

Yang Mo sneered: "Without doing anything, you can make a net profit of 700 million a month? Tsk~ As expected, that's all those guys are capable of!"

Then he waved his hand and said, "I'll take care of this matter. I'll give the order. If this happens again, those companies can terminate the contract if they want. Just pay the compensation according to the contract. There's no need to argue with them."

Taking out a cigarette and lighting it, Yang Mo pondered for a while, then turned around and said, "Xiao Xin, call the office and ask Director Song to come over. Tell him I have something to talk to him about."

Upon hearing this, the little follower Wang Xin did not dare to be negligent. He immediately responded and then hurriedly pushed the door open and walked out.

Song Wenxuan?
Zhuo Mali looked at the man in front of her with doubt in her heart, not understanding what Yang Mo was planning to do by calling Song Wenxuan over at this moment...

(End of this chapter)