Love in the Courtyard: Starting with Engineers

Zheng Qiushi approached Li Yu and said, "You must be Li Yu?"

Li Yu nodded and said, "That is me."

Unexpectedly, Zheng Qiushi patted Li Yu on the shoulder and said, "I've heard you're not bad. Keep up the good work."

After saying that, he turned to Li Huaide and said, "Take me to the conference room first, let's have a quick meeting so we can all get to know each other."

He then walked into the steel rolling mill.

Upon arriving at the conference room and taking the seat of honor, Zheng Qiushi coughed and then said, "My name is Zheng Qiushi, and from today onwards, I will be in charge of leading everyone at the steel rolling mill."

He stretched his hand behind him, and Ma Wude, who was standing behind him, immediately handed him a thermos. After taking a sip, he continued:

"No matter what happened in the past, I hope that the steel rolling mill will follow my ideas in the future. I believe that under my leadership, the steel rolling mill will definitely achieve new glory."

Then Zheng Qiushi began to talk to everyone for two hours about his bright future at the steel rolling mill.

"Finally, since I am new to the steel rolling mill and do not know the various departments, I hope that everyone will write a report on the situation of their department and submit it to me tomorrow."

Everyone frowned upon hearing this, not expecting the new factory manager to give them such a tough start right after arriving.

"By the way! I especially hope the research workshop report is as detailed as possible, and you should report to me in advance if there are any projects to be promoted later," Zheng Qiushi said to Li Yu.

Upon hearing this, Li Yu immediately became furious. If I had to suffer mistreatment before transmigrating and I still have to suffer mistreatment after transmigrating, then what the hell did I do to transmigrate?

Li Yu said indifferently, "The research we conduct in the workshop is all classified. No one has the right to inquire about it before the results are available."

"Furthermore, the research workshop of the steel rolling mill is under my independent jurisdiction, which was specially approved by the Ministry of Industry and you have no right to interfere."

"Besides, all research projects in the research workshop are reported to the Ministry of Industry, so you can't control them."

After saying that, Li Yu stood up and left the meeting room.

Zheng Qiushi's face darkened instantly as he watched Li Yu leave.

Even Li Huaide didn't expect that Li Yu would directly disrespect Zheng Qiushi at this moment.

The meeting ended abruptly with Li Yu's early departure.

Upon arriving at his office, Zheng Qiushi slammed his thermos cup onto the ground.

"Who does he think he is! What kind of person does he think he is! How dare he talk back to me?"

Ma Wude chimed in, "Director Zheng, how about we transfer some of the key technical personnel from the research workshop to him?"

"Are you an idiot? Any achievements in the research workshop are all my credit. But since I came here and it's become paralyzed, whose fault do you think it is?"

Zheng Qiushi pointed at Ma Wude's nose and cursed.

Zheng Qiushi came here because there is a research workshop. Li Yu not only independently developed and produced a rolling mill, but also submitted a steelmaking technology some time ago.

It is said that the steel rolling mill is now preparing to expand because of this steelmaking technology.

Zheng Qiushi sat on the sofa, tapping his fingers incessantly on the armrest, trying to figure out how to deal with Li Yu.

Just then, Ma Wude suddenly said, "How about we block his supplies?"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Qiushi thought it was a good idea and planned to start from the perspective of optimizing allocation and saving resources.

Shortly after, Zhu Dachuan, the head of the supply department, was summoned to Zheng Qiushi's office.

Under Zheng Qiushi's "coercion and enticement," he directly betrayed Li Huaide.

Previously, the supply department was under the management of Li Huaide, which was part of the logistics department, but Zheng Qiushi gave it far too much.

Zheng Qiushi promised that as long as he obeyed, he could let Zhu Dachuan select a team leader position for his family in the steel rolling mill.

In the following days, Li Yu and Li Huaide thought that Zheng Qiushi would definitely take measures to retaliate, but to their surprise, Zheng Qiushi did not take any action.

Instead, he spends his days conducting research in various production departments, basically spending all his time in the workshop except for meals.

During this period, the steel rolling mill successively introduced safety production regulations and standardized adjustments to workshop layout, and the entire steel rolling mill gradually appeared to be thriving.

Zheng Qiushi is gradually implementing the production management methods he learned abroad in the steel rolling mill, and Li Huaide is starting to feel the pressure.

Not only is Zheng Qiushi now in complete control of the production department, but he is also gradually infiltrating the logistics department.

Li Huaide is particularly finding it increasingly difficult to direct the supply and procurement departments.

Since the purchasing department took the notes approved by Zheng Qiushi to purchase supplies from various food factories, the steel rolling mill has never lacked food.

The head of the purchasing department also broke free from Li Huaide's control thanks to Zheng Qiushi's influence.

That day, Li Yu was in his office dealing with a problem that arose from the production of steelmaking furnace components in the workshop.

Zhou Qiming pushed the door open and came in.

Upon approaching Li Yu, Zhou Qiming picked up the teacup in front of Li Yu and began to drink, exclaiming, "Hey~ Zheng Qiushi is a real scoundrel!"

Seeing Zhou Qiming so angry, Li Yu asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Qiming said with a resentful look, "Today I'm going to go and get some special steel approved by that guy Pig Intestine."

"I never expected that guy would tell me to prioritize supplying other workshops and ask us to write applications for Zheng Qiushi to approve."

Upon hearing this, Li Yu knew that this must be Zheng Qiushi's doing, and he thought that Zheng Qiushi had no intention of fighting him.

I never expected to find him waiting here.

Li Yu said to Zhou Qiming, "It's alright, I'll go find Zhu Dachuan and ask him what's going on."

With that, Li Yu went straight to the supply department.

When Zhu Dachuan from the supply department saw Li Yu coming to find him, he was somewhat afraid.

He was present when Yang Weimin was carried out of the house by him.

But he still suppressed his fear and asked Li Yu, "You... what brings you here?"

Li Yu pulled up a chair and sat down, saying, "Why not approve special steel for the research workshop?"

"Brother Li, I have no choice. These days, Director Zheng has stipulated that all special steel entering and leaving the supply department must have his slip."

"You can't make things difficult for me, Brother Li."

Zhu Dachuan said to Li Yu with a wry smile.

Seeing this, Li Yu did not intend to make things difficult for Zhu Dachuan, because he knew that Zhu Dachuan was at most an obedient follower in this matter.

He planned to go directly to Zheng Qiushi. He went back to his office and wrote an application, as well as a receipt for the application.

He went to Zheng Qiushi's office and pushed the door open without knocking.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I opened the door, I saw Ma Wude massaging Zheng Qiushi's shoulders.

"I didn't expect Director Zheng to have a private masseuse?" Li Yu mocked.

Zheng Qiushi was about to speak when he saw that the person who came was Li Yu.

Ma Wude retorted, "Do you know how busy Director Zheng is every day? What's wrong with me, as his secretary, giving him a shoulder massage?"

"I'm getting old, unlike young people who get sick easily when they're busy. So, Xiao Ma giving me a massage is so I can better serve the workers at the steel mill!"

"Section Chief Li, please don't make a mountain out of a molehill."

Li Yu, seeing Zheng Qiushi's words, had no intention of engaging in a verbal battle with him.

"Director Zheng, this is my application for special steel. Please approve it for me."

Zheng Qiushi took a sip of tea from his thermos and said, "Just leave it there. I'll review it and approve it for you."

Then Li Yu took out another slip of paper: "In that case, I would like to trouble Director Zheng to sign a receipt for me, which will serve as proof that you have received my application."

Zheng Qiushi was taken aback; he had never heard of such a thing as a receipt. He took it, glanced at it, and signed it casually.

"Alright, if there's nothing else, I need to get back to work, Section Chief Li."

After receiving the receipt, Li Yu returned to the research workshop.

Upon seeing Li Yu return, Zhou Qiming immediately came over and asked, "Did Zheng Qiushi approve your request?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "No."

"You can still laugh? How could we have completed the construction of the steelmaking furnace in two months without special steel?" Zhou Qiming said anxiously.

Li Yu said, "If there's no one, then stop production. Anyway, the workshop has other production tasks right now. What does it matter to me if the steel furnace can't be built?"

Seeing Li Yu's confident demeanor, Zhou Qiming knew that he must have a plan.

Although he was curious, he didn't bother to ask since Li Yu didn't seem inclined to.