Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Soon the whole workshop became restless.

Many people believed what Yi Zhonghai and his colleagues said, and thought that the money used by the steel mill to purchase pork was embezzled by Deputy Director Li.

They clenched their fists and shouted slogans in the workshop, asking the workshop director to take them to the factory leaders to seek justice.

The workshop director is also Director Yang’s man.

He hoped that the workers under him would become more and more violent. When the situation became uncontrollable, even if Deputy Director Li did not embezzle the funds for purchasing pork for the steel rolling mill, his superiors would investigate Deputy Director Li and transfer him out of the steel rolling mill in order to calm the workers' anger.

By then, Director Yang will no longer be a threat at the steel rolling mill.

Those leaders who have joined Deputy Director Li will also be purged by Director Yang because they have lost their backing, which will free up a large number of positions, and maybe they can take the opportunity to move up.

So he did not stop the workers' unrest.

At this moment, the announcer's voice was once again transmitted to a workshop through the radio.

"Through the joint efforts of Deputy Director Li and all the workers and cadres in the logistics system, Deputy Director Li helped the steel mill purchase more than 300 sets of pig offal in just five days."

"Through the efforts of all the employees in Canteen 1, all the offal has been braised and will be distributed to every worker in the steel rolling mill as a New Year's gift. Each worker will receive a lunch box of braised offal, which is delicious and juicy, and more cost-effective than two taels of pork per person. Workers from Workshop 1, Workshop 2, Workshop 3, and Workshop 4, please take your lunch boxes to Canteen 1 to collect your benefits."

Deputy Director Li has been in office for almost a year and has trained a lot of his own people on the production line.

Especially after the idea of ​​bringing more land to get more subsidies was proposed, many workers believed that Deputy Director Li had made efforts to improve their work grades, and began to side with Deputy Director Li.

Therefore, Workshop 1 not only has Director Yang's confidants, but also many of Deputy Director Li's confidants.

After listening to the latest broadcast, he began to speak up for Deputy Director Li: "Deputy Director Li cares most about us ordinary workers..."

"If Deputy Director Li hadn't suggested that you can get subsidies for taking apprentices, I would not have a master, and I would not have passed the second-level fitter exam this year."

"Such a good factory leader would definitely not embezzle the funds that the steel mill gave us to sell meat."

"The price of pork in the pigeon market has increased four or five times, and you may not be able to buy it even if you have money."

"If the steel mill really gives me a few ounces of pork as a New Year's gift, it would be better to give me a lunch box of pork offal..."

A worker from Siheyuan suddenly interrupted: "I've eaten pig offal made by Team Leader Wang in the canteen."

“Not only does it not have a fishy smell, it’s also full of oil and water.”

"If this is a comparison, I wouldn't trade a lunch box of braised pork offal for a pound of pork."

"During the Chinese New Year, we stew cabbage and radish, and a lunch box of pork offal can last until the third day of the first lunar month.

"After saying that, he grabbed his empty lunch box and rushed to the workshop door, fearing that he would be too late and the better offal would be snatched away by others."

After hearing this analysis, the workers who had just denounced Deputy Director Li immediately showed an embarrassed expression on their faces, and said one after another: "I also think that Deputy Director Li is a good person."

"Several factories around us didn't provide any New Year benefits, and even if they did, we wouldn't have any pork to eat..."

"Deputy Director Li brought back a lot of pig offal for us. This treatment is many times better than that of other factories..."

Seeing more and more workers rushing out of the workshop with lunch boxes, Yi Zhonghai's face instantly darkened.

The action of taking the opportunity to suppress Deputy Director Li was instructed by Director Yang.

As long as the workers were excited and dissatisfied with Deputy Director Li, Director Yang would be able to persuade his superiors to transfer Deputy Director Li away or demote him. In this way, his position as director would be secure and no one could take it away. Unexpectedly, the plan failed just as it began.

The workers are not fools.

As a cadre, Director Yang has no shortage of pork, so he looks down upon the offal prepared by Wang Dong no matter how delicious it is.

But the steel mill workers are different.

Workers with better conditions can only eat meat once every one or two months, while workers with poor conditions may not have eaten pork for half a year and their stomachs are very lacking in oil and water.

Compared with one or two taels of pork, they definitely prefer the braised pork offal which is larger in weight and has more fat and water.

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In the kitchen of a canteen, facing the influx of workers, more than fifty workers were on high alert and ready to serve the food.

Because there was no charge today and the standard for serving food was one lunch box per person, there was almost no such thing as ordering too much or too little. In order to speed up the serving of food, Wang Dong prepared fifty windows.

One window fights five people in one minute, fifty windows add up to two hundred and fifty people, ten minutes is two thousand five hundred people...

It only took an hour for all the workers in the factory to finish the treatment.

Less than half an hour later, Director Yang and Deputy Director Li and their entourage appeared at the entrance of a cafeteria.

Wang Dong hurried over and said, "Director, leaders, why are you here..."

Deputy Director Li raised his eyebrows and continued, "I decided to replace the pork welfare in the factory with pig offal. The director was a little worried, so he came to take a look..."

Wang Dong understood as soon as he heard it.

Director Yang clearly came here to see the fun.

If the workers were not happy with Deputy Director Li replacing pork with offal, Director Yang would confront Deputy Director Li in front of all the workers in the factory, making him lose face in front of the workers, which would in turn arouse the workers' outrage.

But he obviously miscalculated.

This can be seen from the solemn expression on Director Yang's face.

There were more than a thousand workers queuing in a canteen, all of them with anticipation on their faces.

After the fight, the workers looked at their lunch boxes filled with braised pork offal, all with smiles on their faces. No one looked disappointed, and there was not a single worker who was dissatisfied with Deputy Director Li.

Many workers even came to Deputy Director Li with lunch boxes filled with braised pork offal to express their gratitude.

He completely ignored his existence while speaking, which made Director Yang very embarrassed.

"Comrade, wait a moment..." Seeing a worker not far away carefully putting a lunch box full of pig offal into a net bag, Director Yang really couldn't understand why they were so happy, and couldn't help but call him to his side.

"Hello, leader..." The worker was so excited to see so many factory leaders staring at him that he couldn't even speak clearly.

Seeing Deputy Director Li standing next to Director Yang, he quickly said, "Thank you, Deputy Director Li, for bringing us so many pig offal..."

"Otherwise, my wife and children won't be able to eat any meat at the New Year's Eve dinner this year..."

Director Yang saw the other person walk around him and express his gratitude to Deputy Director Li. The smile on his face was instantly replaced by seriousness, and he frowned and asked back. (End of this chapter)