Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

Zeng Wangcai noticed Yang Weiguo's attitude, but said nothing. After glancing at Li Huaide, he took Zhang Xiuzhi to the Personnel Department.

After handing Zhang Xiuzhi over to Section Chief Yu, he went out immediately and caught up with Yang Weiguo and others who had not yet had time to enter the office.

This attitude is very clear. We must strip off Yi Zhonghai's other mask today.

Seeing Zeng Wangcai following over, Yang Weiguo sighed inwardly, knowing that things would not end well today.

He was not afraid of Zeng Wangcai, but he was worried that Zeng Wangcai would tell Old Man Liu about the results of today's handling. If the handling was unfair, there would be consequences.

The steel rolling mill is a department-level unit. Yang Weiguo has been promoted to the position of factory director, which is considered to be the top among the grassroots. If he moves up one level, he will enter the ministry.

He is a man with ideas and of course he wants to go further.

The same is true for Li Huaide, but Li Huaide is one level lower than Yang Weiguo, so even if someone has someone in the department, if he wants to make the next step, he usually needs to be promoted first.

Therefore, Li Huaide was also keeping an eye on Yang Weiguo.

Some people say that this delicate relationship is a feature, while others consider it to be internal friction.

Entering the office, Deputy Section Chief Sun reported: "We went to the subdistrict office and the police station, and the situation is not good... Director Zhang of the subdistrict office reported that Comrade Yi Zhonghai has a problem with his work style. He was arguing with a widow in their yard. This is what she saw with her own eyes. As for what else she didn't see, she said she didn't know;

"Later we went to the police station and learned that the middle-aged woman who had a connection with Comrade Yi Zhonghai had been arrested. She also confessed to slandering Comrade Zeng Wangcai, including that she had a connection with Comrade Yi Zhonghai. The middle-aged woman also admitted it..."

Hearing this, Zeng Wangcai had a question mark on his forehead. Did Jia Zhang admit it?

No way......

Could it be that they really are having an affair?

Zeng Wangcai didn't know whether Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhang were related. To be honest, sometimes he could hardly distinguish between the original work and the novels he had read, as there were too many of them.

He felt that because of his arrival, perhaps the plot had changed, so he could not fully trust his God's Eye in the future, and maybe there really was something going on between the two of them.

There is another possibility. Zeng Wangcai thought about the situation inside the police station in the early years. That was an era without surveillance, and no one could tell what happened after entering.

So, maybe Jia Zhang couldn't bear it after she went in, and wanted to convict her quickly, so she just went along with it.

"Is there really such a thing? It's an old lady?" Li Huaide suddenly spoke with a strange expression.

Zeng Wangcai tried to hold back his laughter after seeing this. He probably guessed Li Huaide's mentality. He estimated that Li Huaide now viewed Yi Zhonghai as a fellow traveler. However, Li Huaide might look down on Yi Zhonghai. His focus was on the word "auntie".

"Uh..., it's true!" Deputy Section Chief Sun suppressed his embarrassment, "It's absolutely true. Director Zhang and the comrades at the police station would not lie. We have witnesses and physical evidence."

"This is too much. What kind of comrade is this? He is an enemy..." Li Huaide said angrily.

Yang Weiguo looked at Li Huaide with a strange expression and said, "Well, Deputy Director Li, that's too much. As for his lifestyle, we can only say that he is not conscious enough and cannot be considered an enemy."

At the steel mill, Li Huaide's work style problems had long been leaked, but no one could catch him.

Employees like Liu Lan in the cafeteria who are willing to hang out with Li Huaide all have their own demands, and Li Huaide has a characteristic: as long as you agree to his request, he will agree to your request.

Just like Xu Damao, he bought the position of team leader with a small yellow croaker. Li Huaide has a good reputation for this.

"Director Yang, are you still not an enemy?" Li Huaide seemed not to give Yang Weiguo face, and said angrily, "People with such dirty thoughts cannot be called comrades."

"Old Li!" Yang Weiguo rubbed his brows and glanced at Zeng Wangcai before reminding him, "The subdistrict office only said that they saw them arguing. Xiao Sun just said that the police station asked the old lady and she admitted that she had a relationship with Yi Zhonghai, but she didn't say what the relationship was..."

Playing word games?

Zeng Wangcai stared at Yang Weiguo, not understanding why Yang Weiguo did this, but you really couldn't find any fault with what Yang Weiguo said.

"Xiao Sun said that the other party is a middle-aged woman in her 50s or 60s, so it shouldn't have come to that stage yet. You are not unaware of the situation at the police station!" Yang Weiguo continued, "There may be some problems here. I am not saying that I will not deal with Yi Zhonghai, but I think we cannot blindly treat it as a case of promiscuous sex. If that is the case, expelling Yi Zhonghai would be a light punishment;

"Old Li, think about it, Yi Zhonghai is an eighth-level fitter, a talented person..."

There was a subtext in these words, and Li Huaide pondered over it carefully.

Zeng Wangcai had no idea how awesome an eighth-level fitter was, but he could roughly tell from the reviews of the novels he had read that such people were quite rare, especially after 1958, when the country seldom awarded eighth-level fitters, making them even more rare.

In an era when tools were scarce, it was no exaggeration to say that an eighth-level fitter was a factory treasure.

In this way, Yang Weiguo's thoughts became more obvious. He did not want to fire Yi Zhonghai, but just punish him. He also wanted to keep him working. After all, he did not have as strong a background as Li Huaide, and doing a good job was an important indicator for further development.

After Yang Weiguo's reminder, Li Huaide came to his senses: "It seems to make sense..."

Seeing this, Zeng Wangcai knew that Yi Zhonghai would be in trouble, but he would not be completely finished.

"Then, how to deal with Yi Zhonghai?" Li Huaide looked at Yang Weiguo.

Yang Weiguo glanced at Zeng Wangcai, pondered for a few seconds and said, "First, he must undergo labor reform, understand his mistakes, and let the Propaganda Department give him lessons; second, his salary will be downgraded by two levels, and when it will be restored depends on his future performance. If he continues to be stubborn, then there is no need to restore it, and he may even be fired if he commits the same mistake again; third, the results of the handling will be reported to the entire factory..."

There is a problem with this approach from the first point, because Yi Zhonghai is originally a laborer. So after saying this, Yang Weiguo added this point, explaining that labor reform means transferring Yi Zhonghai from his current position for a period of time to another more difficult position for reform.

The second point is easy to understand. Yi Zhonghai's salary as an eighth-level fitter is more than 99 yuan a month, not including subsidies. If he is demoted by two levels, it becomes 72.3 yuan a month, a full 27 yuan less, which is equivalent to the loss of Jia Dongxu's salary.

There is nothing to say about the last one. The whole factory was informed to serve as a warning to others.

Zeng Wangcai did not express his opinion, nor did he have the opportunity to speak, he just listened silently.

After making the decision, Yang Weiguo no longer hesitated and reached a consensus with Li Huaide, asking Li Huaide's secretary to handle it immediately. The so-called handling meant going to the factory office to go through the procedures and to the propaganda department at the same time.

Zeng Wangcai came out of Yang Weiguo's office, chatting and laughing with Xiao Yan. He watched Xiao Yan first go to the factory office to inform Director Zhou Yongping, and then go to the Propaganda Department together.

Zeng Wangcai's return to the Propaganda Department can be regarded as a revisit to an old place.

While Xiao Yan and Section Chief Zhou Hongbo were talking about something, he smoked a few cigarettes in the office while waiting.

After a while, Zhou Hongbo and Xiao Yan came out. Zhou Hongbo said, "It's time to write a notice. One of you can go to the next room."

"Chief, can I write it?" Zeng Wangcai raised his hand with a smile, "I know about this matter, and I haven't written for a long time, so my hands are itching..."