The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 33: I can't hold my mouth

Director Wang walked towards the workshop and said, "I'm going to see how your safety publicity work is going. If I'm not satisfied, Li Huaide, I will severely criticize you."

"The leaders criticize me, which shows their love for me." Li Huaide said with a smile: "Our publicity work just started yesterday, and there are still many imperfections. We need the leaders to criticize and correct us. Any criticism is an encouragement to us."

When Director Wang walked to the door of the workshop, he saw a large sign at the door. It listed the possible dangers that might be encountered in the workshop in great detail and also listed the rescue process.

Director Wang nodded calmly and then entered the workshop. There were signs in many places, listing the dangers of that place. They were all marked with red letters and were very eye-catching.

After leaving this workshop, we entered other workshops. Different workshops had different warnings. The sources of danger, degree of hazard and rescue process were all very detailed.

"You made a very good warning sign. It is clear and shows the danger at a glance." Director Wang said with satisfaction: "But now this is just surface work. We need to implement safety production in actual work. We must follow up on the things you just mentioned."

Li Huaide quickly stated: "This is just an attempt. Next, we will seriously discuss the implementation details at our factory committee meeting and strive to implement the work in a practical manner."

“Yes, this is the attitude to work.”

Director Wang's affirmation boosted Li Huaide's spirits. Although his father-in-law was in a high position and had great power, he could not make the final decision on the issue of the director of the steel rolling mill. Therefore, he had to get as many people as possible to support him. Wouldn't that mean he had won one position?

After inspecting the workshop for the whole morning, Director Yang asked Sha Zhu to prepare a table of delicious dishes in an attempt to save his decadent situation.

Although Director Wang enjoyed his lunch very much, he still criticized Director Yang by name during the afternoon meeting.

"Old Yang, your work this year is not ideal. At the beginning of the year, we set a goal of increasing production by 30%. Now that more than half a year has passed, your production has only increased by about 10%. It is basically impossible to increase production by 20% in the remaining four months."

Director Wang sighed and shook his head: "Your work status makes the leaders very helpless."

Li Huaide couldn't suppress the smile that almost turned up to the sky, he was so happy. This time, Lao Yang was flattering the boss, thinking that he could please the leader with just a meal. This was too cheap.

After Director Wang left, Li Huaide convened a meeting of the entire factory leadership to discuss the follow-up work on safety production education.

Director Yang was a little confused. When he heard that Li Huaide wanted to purchase all the safety protection equipment, he raised his hand to object.

Li Huaide was overjoyed. Wasn't this just putting the handle in his hands?

Director Yang also reacted quickly and made an excuse, saying, "Well, I have a headache right now and I am in a trance. I agree to equip you with safety protection equipment. I will take a leave and will not attend today's meeting. Just give me a copy of the minutes at the end."

Although he explained quickly, Li Huaide would not miss such a good opportunity to undermine his prestige. He had always been troubled by the fact that he could not interfere in production matters. Isn't this just a pillow for your sleep?

Li Huaide's cronies later spread the word in the factory, saying that Director Yang was opposed to providing workers with safety protection equipment in order to save costs.

However, in order to curry favor with his superiors, Director Yang invited them to dinner with a table full of seven or eight dishes of delicious food in order to gain benefits for himself.

The workers were furious, and Sha Zhu was a bit outspoken, often saying things like the director drank the workers' blood, which further confirmed the rumors spread by Li Huaide. Since then, Director Yang's prestige in the factory has plummeted. Except for a few diehard fans, the rest of the people looked at him with a bitter and resentful expression.

After several days of study, Liu Hua began to draw the blueprint of a two-headed donkey, which was not an easy task.

A considerable amount of calculations are required. Apart from going to the workshop for routine maintenance every day, he spends the rest of his time drawing in the office. At first, Ma Yushan and his colleagues were used to it, but later they saw that he would draw for several days and spend a lot of time on draft papers for calculations every day, so they became quite curious.

Ma Yushan asked curiously: "Liu'er, what have you been painting these two days?"

"Master, I'm designing a new machine." Liu Hua smiled and said, "Knowledge gained from books is shallow. You have to practice it yourself to know it. If you don't draw these drawings, you won't know how difficult it is. I have overturned the results of my calculations three times in the past two days."

"Boy, you are really good." Ma Yushan gave a thumbs up. "I have worked with your master for more than ten years, doing nothing but mending and designing new machines. That is something I dare not even think about. You actually have such ambition."

"Hey, let's have fun, just in case it works."

Ma Yushan came over and said, "Let me take a look. Although I, your master, have never designed a new machine, I am good at reading blueprints."

Picking up the blueprint on the table, Ma Yushan frowned and looked at it for five minutes: "This doesn't look like a machine tool, right?"

Zhang Xiaoli smiled and said, "This is new. It's not a machine tool drawing. You took five minutes to figure it out. You are good at reading drawings, but it's quite fake."

Ma Yushan scratched his head: "This is not my fault. I have never seen this machine before. What is it used for?"

Zhang Xiaoli took the blueprint and said sarcastically: "You are still doing maintenance, but you can't even understand the blueprint."

Zhang Xiaoli looked at it for two minutes and then surrendered: "I don't understand it either, but I can be sure that it has nothing to do with our factory's products."

Liu Hua smiled and said, "This is a kowtow machine. It's not in the same industry as ours."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ma Yushan said angrily, "It's a new society now. We no longer advocate kowtow. You're still building a machine that kowtows. You're taking history backwards."

Liu Hua burst into laughter. It was really creative. He found a machine specifically for kowtowing. A few decades later, someone might make a machine to knock a wooden fish to accumulate merit, but no one had made a machine specifically for kowtowing.

"Master, this thing is used by the oil industry to extract oil. At first, the British thought it looked like a donkey's head, so they called it a donkey head machine. Later, some people thought its extraction action looked like kowtowing, so some people called it a kowtowing machine."

Ma Yushan suddenly realized and said embarrassedly: "I told you. You can't possibly create such a feudal machine safety. But what's the point of designing this? Isn't it said that it has already been available?"

Zhang Xiaoli shook her head: "How do you teach your apprentices? It already exists, so can't you design it? Can't you improve it?"

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