Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

Yang Weiguo was not worried at all because he knew Zeng Wangcai would not be able to come back to work.

But now that Zeng Wangcai is here, Yang Weiguo has to entertain him anyway: "Don't leave at noon, go to the cafeteria. The day before yesterday, I went to the big leader's house, and he said that you didn't visit him recently."

"Forget about the meal. I am a commoner now and cannot eat with you." Zeng Wangcai refused with a smile, "I will go out to eat with my colleagues later. Just approve the leave for me."

When Yang Weiguo mentioned Liu Yong, Zeng Wangcai refused to give him face, and the two of them started to compete with each other secretly.

"That's fine. I'll treat you some other day." Yang Weiguo softened after two seconds. "By the way, what are you doing here?"

"Look at what you said, my wife works here, you didn't forget it, did you?" Zeng Wangcai brought the topic back, not letting the old fox have a chance to slip away, "As soon as I arrived, my wife brought people to smash the Labor Insurance Department, saying that the Labor Insurance Department did not provide labor insurance to the security unit. Is the steel mill in such a difficult situation now?

"Director Nie, the Labor Protection Department is under your charge, right? How about I donate some money or things to you? I'll ask the garment factory to produce some towels and send them to you..."

This is a slap in the face. There is currently no statement that state-owned factories accept private donations.

However, Zeng Wangcai reminded them that the situation is different now. There are private units and privately owned companies.

The Zeng family has taken back the shares of the garment factory, and Zeng Youqian is now a shareholder of the garment factory. The resumed production of the garment factory not only has a different structure, but its operations are all decided by the garment factory itself.

"What's going on, Chief Li?" Director Nie seized the opportunity and perfectly cooperated with Zeng Wangcai to point out the name of the chief of the labor insurance section. "Isn't our factory's labor insurance enough? Why don't we provide labor insurance to the comrades in the security section?"

Section Chief Li had obtained Yang Weiguo's consent for this matter, but given the current situation, Section Chief Li did not dare to betray Yang Weiguo.

He argued: "It's not that I didn't send it. I gave it to them as a supplement. They are not satisfied and want to make a fuss..."

"It seems like you think we are idiots." Zhang Xiuzhi angrily spoke in her hometown dialect, "You are a jerk who eats people's food but does not do human work. Look at what you are handing out. Is this a towel? The soap is even missing a corner..."

A thorough investigation of labor protection products shows that the towel is just a layer of gauze and the soap is short in weight.

Some people may think that in this day and age, products must be authentic and there will be no quality problems. Even if there are any, they are technical issues, not human concerns.

Haha, it’s really not the case!

If there are people who dare to have bad intentions towards military products, let alone other things, there have been cases of substandard military products on the battlefield before.

Zeng Wangcai guessed the problem immediately and said with a strange laugh, "Which towel factory produced this? Even diapers leak, and this is called a towel? And this soap, the mold is blocked, right? Xiuzhi, are all the ones you give out like this?"

"Yes," Zhang Xiuzhi nodded, "It's not just us. Other workers in the workshop also have this problem, but they dare not speak out and can only suffer in silence."

"Well, corruption, it's only been a few years..."

Section Chief Li’s face turned green. “Stop talking, big brother! If you continue talking I’ll go to jail.”

But it was too late. Yang Weiguo discovered the problem. Although he was protecting the section chief, he did not have the courage to do anything rash. He knew he had been fooled.

"You bastard..." Yang Weiguo cursed angrily, "Stop working and get ready for inspection..."

Well, as soon as Zeng Wangcai came, he directly fired a section chief.

Zeng Wangcai left, taking his wife and colleagues from the Propaganda Department with him. Yang Weiguo was found to be in a bad position, so there was no reason not to give the Propaganda Department a holiday.

Third floor, Yang Weiguo’s office.

"You are so bold that you even dare to play tricks on labor insurance matters. I can't take care of this matter. You have to figure it out yourself." Yang Weiguo paced back and forth in the office.

Section Chief Li lowered his head and said pitifully, "Director, this is not my fault. I didn't get much benefit. This matter was assigned by... Director Zheng."

"Then go find him. I don't care!" Yang Weiguo's face changed slightly and said, "If he doesn't care, you can prepare to go to jail. Anyway, I plan to report this matter to my superiors, and they will send people to investigate."

"I know. Can you give me two days and do it later?"

"One day, just one day! If there is no result by tomorrow afternoon, I won't wait any longer."

"Hey hey hey, tomorrow!"

......

Fengze Garden.

Zeng Wangcai treated us and we directly asked for a private room. It was not time for dinner yet, so we just had some melon seeds and something to eat.

"Wangcai, you shouldn't confront that Li guy today." Zhou Hongbo recalled the previous conflict in the factory and kindly reminded him, "Li has a backer. I heard that Director Yang has to give his backer some face. It's not worth offending him for some labor insurance."

"Section Chief, you surprise me." Zeng Wangcai said with a smile, "You were not like this before. You never said such things, nor did you participate in such things."

"Wangcai, you don't know something." An old colleague explained with a smile, "Our section chief is afraid. He said that people's hearts are not as good as they used to be. He loves you and is afraid that you might offend him, so he reminded you."

"You are so talkative!" Zhou Hongbo glared at him and said, "Wangcai is one of us. When he was in the factory, he was very kind to you. Now that he has something to worry about, it is only right for us to speak up."

"Thanks, Chief. Let's go out and get some fresh air..." Zeng Wangcai patted Zhou Hongbo on the shoulder. What he was going to say next was not convenient for too many people to know.

After coming out, the two found a corner and leaned against the railing to smoke.

"Chief, can I ask about our factory's current production volume?" Zeng Wangcai asked.

Many people know the annual output of steel mills, including data such as losses, but not many people know the real situation.

Zhou Hongbo is an old man and works in the Propaganda Department. These data need to be "processed" by him before they can be sent out, so Zeng Wangcai asked him.

"It's much worse than before..." Zhou Hongbo sighed, "The machines are too old, and the workers' enthusiasm is not as high as before. It's hard to do ideological work for the workers now."

"Of course. Salaries haven't increased much over the years, so there must be complaints." Zeng Wangcai nodded and asked a more sensitive question, "Are there many people who are not working?"

There are two situations in which someone is drawing a salary without working: one, there is no such person at all, but he or she must be paid; two, there is such a person, but he or she does not go to work.

"Wangcai, what are you going to do?" Zhou Hongbo was shocked and didn't dare to answer the question.

"It's okay. I just want to learn more about it in advance to prepare for the contract later."

"Contract... steel mill?" Zhou Hongbo was almost scared to death when he heard the word "contract". You're not going to do that, are you? It's just a fuss, you want to change the name of the whole factory?

indeed!

Zeng Wangcai had an idea for the steel rolling mill, and he started thinking about it two months ago.