Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 533 Do something and don't do something

In the past few days, Li Jiankun's office has always been visited by factory owners or people in charge.

Some people's attitudes are quite good, but it's hard to understand just asking them what kind of trouble they want to make and what are the benefits of doing so.

Some of them can't be said in three or two sentences, and the picture is very clear, and they have an attitude of launching an army to investigate the crime.

Li Jiankun's response was very simple. He just threw a few words - I'm not the boss.

He has contacted Lin Xinjia and told him not to come to the Special Administrative Region recently.

The matter was a bit big, but Li Jiankun had foreseen that his way of doing business would not change because of other people's incomprehension or harsh criticism.If possible, he has a bigger idea in mind——

Give an example to the enterprises in the special zone.

Establish a set of labor standards.

The Special Administrative Region is trying to cross the river by feeling for the stones. It is developing in a barbaric way in many aspects. There are too many shortcomings and irrationality in it. Some people just seize these and regard them as a magic weapon to create wealth, treating people like machines. It's wrong to use it as a donkey.

Li Jiankun once heard about an incident. It was in their Shangbu Industrial Zone that a female worker who was awarded the "Production Model" every month was forced to leave the factory and go home for medical treatment.

Due to long-term congestion and lack of timely treatment, several of her ten fingers were suspected of being necrotic.

Poverty forces these female workers to be willing to accept oppression, but compared to the little salary they receive, the price they pay is too heavy.

"Brother Kun, brother Kun, come out and take a look!"

There was a sound in the corridor. Li Jiankun stood up and walked outside the office door. Looking in the direction of Chen Yajun's finger, he saw a black procession of heads on the loess road outside the factory yard, pulling a few simple banners. Far and near, the slogans they chanted gradually became clearer:

"Against the twelve-hour work day!"

"Resist all exploitation!"

“Workers should have legal rights!”

...

Jin Biao clicked his tongue and said, "This is a general strike!"

Chen Yajun looked at Li Jiankun and said in surprise: "You can still laugh? Those bastards will definitely come back later."

Li Jiankun smiled and said nothing. He never denied that he loved the 80s. He loved many things, among which young people were passionate.

He looked at the long queue and suddenly noticed an extremely heart-warming scene. When passing by the Huadian Factory, all the female workers stopped their voices in unison, walked forward silently, and cast envious glances at the factory, vaguely still... See some respect.

Why don't you smile?

Worth it.

Just as Chen Yajun expected, it didn't take long before the bosses or people in charge of nearby factories came to visit again. This time they didn't come alone or in groups.

They thought that Li Jiankun was a professional manager of Huadian, not the boss, and he would bang the table in the office and get angry and complain.

"Manager Li, you can't say it, can you? Your boss won't show up to death? Okay! Let the people from the special zone tell you! Don't forget, we are all joint ventures, and labor support is their responsibility!"

Li Jiankun was smoking a cigarette by himself and made a gesture of invitation.

"Humph!"

A group of people shared the same hatred and walked away.

At noon, Li Jiankun received an invitation to a dinner party. Although he knew it was the Hongmen Banquet, he still had to go and get a call from the Development Committee.

The Special Zone Development Company where Brother Qiang works belongs to the same system.

Hongyun Restaurant, a Hong Kong restaurant run by Hong Kong residents in Futian Central District, has the largest private room on the second floor.

All the factory owners in the Shangbu Industrial Zone are here, and the leader of the Development Committee is named Zhong.

The food was good, the wine was good, but the atmosphere in the private room was a bit strange.The factory owners remained silent for the time being, and did not show their previous anger. Li Jiankun was arranged to take a seat next to Director Zhong.

The latter said kindly: "We contacted Gangcheng Huadian Company, and they said that you have the final say in all affairs of the factory in the special zone. Manager Li, you can make the decision on this matter."

Li Jiankun smiled slightly and said, "I wonder what Director Zhong wants me to do?"

"Aren't you asking this knowingly?"

"So Director Zhong thinks their employment methods are correct?"

"I...didn't say that."

<divclass="contentadv">Director Zhong thought to himself that this person was really difficult to deal with. When it came to "exploitation" and "oppression", he couldn't support it even if he was beaten to death. So he thought carefully about his words and said: "It's just that we have to be gregarious in everything. Other families do it that way, so if you insist on doing it this way, it’s not very good, right?”

Li Jiankun picked up the tea cup and took a sip, "Even if they are wrong?"

Some factory owners couldn't bear it anymore and yelled: "Why do you say we are wrong!"

Li Jiankun glanced at him lightly, "You work like this in Hong Kong City, with a twelve-hour working day and you have to work extra overtime?"

"What does extra overtime mean? We also pay overtime!"

"Two cents an hour, or [-] cents?" Li Jiankun glanced at a group of factory owners, "Labor in the mainland is already very cheap. One labor cost in Hong Kong can be used for ten people here. Isn't this enough? Are you in Hong Kong? If the city follows this set of employment standards, would anyone think of you? You can’t treat them differently to this extent!"

"Tsk, tsk, you are the only one who has a conscience."

"You definitely don't."

"you!"

"Okay, okay." Director Zhong tried to smooth things over to prevent him from actually doing it, then looked at Li Jiankun with a smile, "You really can't change it?"

"Change to what? Change to a twelve-hour work day?"

Li Jiankun said with a sigh: "Director Zhong, our mainland institutions also have an eight-hour working day. Why do we require those female workers to work twelve hours? If you can tell me a reason, I will change it immediately. "

Director Zhong took a sip of tea and stopped talking.

The factory owners began to launch a collective attack, talking all over the place, full of indignation, and obviously threatening.

"If you don't change it, our factory will never cooperate with Huadian in the future."

"So do we! I heard that your products use circuit fuse switches. By coincidence, our factory just happens to be able to produce them."

"Brother Li, he can become the general manager at a young age and is deeply trusted by the head office. Don't let your future go to waste."

"Xiao Sha, you are still too young. Do you understand what an industrial chain is? Do you know why factories in the same industry are clustered together?"

"With this move of Huadian, you are not just trying to offend our factory in Shangbu Industrial Zone. You are offending all the joint ventures in the special zone. Do you really think that your factory can still survive by braving the disapproval of the world like this?"

"Don't be ungrateful, otherwise Huadian won't survive next year!"

I'm so scared~

Li Jiankun smiled calmly.It is true that there is some truth in what these people say, and the threats can really hit home.

However, whether a company can achieve rapid development, the eternal core is the product. As long as the product can be bought by the market, everything can be broken.

"Director Zhong, as you can see, I don't agree with them when I talk to them, and I can't even eat anything. Goodbye."

"No delivery."

The next day, a batch of materials arrived from the Huadian Factory. Chen Zheng, the purchasing manager, was already familiar with the task. He ran to the Special Economic Zone Transportation Company to rent a few Jiefang trucks and go to the checkpoint to pull the goods back. Unexpectedly, he came up empty-handed.

After returning to the factory, go straight to the general manager's office.

Chen Zheng was full of bitterness, "There are obviously a lot of empty cars, but they insist on telling lies with their eyes open, refusing to rent, saying that they have arrangements."

After Li Jiankun signaled him not to be impatient, he looked at Chen Yajun on the wooden sofa and said, "Go to the Camellia Brigade and ask Lin Hai to find some tractors."

Chen Zheng's eyes lit up, there was a way to do it, just slow down.

After the two left together, not long after, Jin Biao led a middle-aged man in a loose suit to the office.

This kind-faced, somewhat defeated man is the owner of the Zhongxin Garment Factory in the Special Administrative Region, the outsourcing partner that Huadian has appointed a while ago.

He was a pretty good man, and he had made friends with Li Jiankun several times. He was a patriotic overseas Chinese named Huang.He stood up specially to receive him.

"Brother Li, forgive me, I really have no choice. In our garment industry, it is impossible for one factory to open up the entire industry chain. We have to rely on both upstream and downstream. They are now..."

Li Jiankun patted the back of his hand and said gently: "Understood."

After seeing off Lao Huang, Li Jiankun told Jin Biao, "Go to Yangcheng and invite Uncle Cai."

"Okay!" After Jin Biao agreed, he asked with a complicated expression, "Do we really want to be the enemy of the whole world?"

Li Jiankun looked at the sunny sky outside the door and exhaled a mouthful of white mist, "So what?"