Siheyuan: All the incense in the family is counting on you

The two were in the office, smoking and drinking tea.

It didn't take long for Yu Haitang and Li Mei to finish the formalities and come back.

"Okay, leader, you go ahead and do your work. I'll send them both to the Propaganda Department, and we'll talk later!" After finishing the work, Li Bowen stood up and said goodbye.

Although he was not very familiar with the head of the Propaganda Section, they met each other often. He had to give Li Bowen face and warmly received the three of them. He also said that he would definitely take good care of Yu Haitang and the other person.

After expressing his gratitude, Li Bowen spoke a few more words to the two of them before returning to the purchasing department.

The first thing Corey did after the new year was to assign tasks.

The only slight change is that after Li Bowen had adapted for a period of time, Chief Gao decided to assign a few people to him this year to be responsible for the procurement tasks of a region. In this way, their procurement department was actually divided into two teams, one led by Chief Gao himself, and the other was Li Bowen's team.

However, Li Bowen would not steal the limelight from others. He took the initiative to say that he was still in charge of purchasing in Changping, which happened to be close to his hometown. He did not ask for many people under his command. He only asked Lin Dong, Fox and a young man named Zheng Xiangqian. Basically, the original staff of Chief Gao were left untouched.

Naturally, Section Chief Gao had no reason to disagree.

After assigning the tasks, everyone started to busy themselves with their own things. Li Bowen went to the factory gate to wait for Fox. They had agreed before that he would report for work today, so he estimated that this guy would be here soon. After waiting at the gate for less than half an hour, he saw Fox's hurried figure.

"Huff, sorry, Mosquito, the bus broke down halfway and delayed us for quite a while, otherwise I would have been here a long time ago!" The fox ran all the way here, and after seeing Li Bowen, he explained while panting.

"It's okay, come on, report with me!"

Fox had one more step to take when joining the company than Yu Haitang and the others, which was dormitory arrangement. However, the Logistics Department was like her home, so she found the person in charge of housing allocation and got the key to the house very smoothly. As Li Bowen had instructed before, the people from the Housing Management Section arranged Fox to live in the back house of Courtyard 95. It was a room of only more than 20 square meters, but it could be made into a one-bedroom and one-living room by partitioning it off, which was enough for their family of three to live in.

After returning to the purchasing department, Li Bowen invited several people to his office.

"Chief, we will work under your command from now on. Please take good care of us!" Lin Dong said with a smile.

Li Bowen picked up the cigarette on the table and threw it at Lin Dong: "Get lost! You're still trying to trick me like this!"

Lin Dong took the cigarette with a smile, gave one to Zheng Xiangqian, and put the rest in his pocket: "Before you were just a name without substance, but now you have substance, so congratulations!"

Zheng Xiangqian was also a newbie who had just joined the company. He had no idea what the two people were talking about. He just watched them talking and laughing with a serious face.

Li Bowen took out another pack of cigarettes from the desk drawer and threw it to him: "Xiang Qian, right? Sit down, everyone. We are all family, so there is no need to be so reserved. Let me introduce you to Lin Dong, Zheng Xiang Qian, and Hu Li."

Then he said to Lin Dong: "Brother Dong, you are the only veteran in our group. Fox and Xiangqian are both newcomers. You should explain the rules and the ways of purchasing to them and try to make them work independently as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry, we are all brothers, and I promise not to hide anything from you! But leader, we have a lot of tasks ahead of us, are you sure?" Lin Dong asked worriedly.

As the purchasing department, although they are nominally responsible for the food, drink, and defecation of thousands of people in the factory, it is now a planned economy, and most of the materials in the factory have matching units. Meat is from the meat processing plant, vegetables are from the supply and marketing cooperative, clothes and labor protection are from the garment factory, etc. Basically, they don't have to worry about it. Anyone can go and get the matching results with the documents.

The remaining main work is divided into two parts. One part is the exchange of unplanned materials. We can use the extra products produced by our own factory to find other companies to exchange for the materials we need. The other part of the work is to go to the countryside to purchase various items needed for the small canteen. The main purpose is to serve the leaders.

When supplies are abundant, the buyer's job is very simple. But when supplies are tight, they have to rely on their own skills. Why was Li Bowen promoted so quickly? It was not only because he helped to uncover the enemy spies, but the fundamental reason was that he was able to get urgently needed supplies. The 20 pigs before the New Year were proof of this.

"It's okay. For the time being, I have a few villages in my hometown and Changling Commune to back me up, which should be enough for the short term. But I still need to go out more to be prepared. I asked you to come here so that we can study together where to start."

Li Bowen was not worried about the task at all. If they could not complete it, they could just ask Wu Lei to purchase it from there. The only downside was that if Wu Lei was asked to purchase it, the goods would have no provenance and could not withstand investigation. It would be safer to sell them privately.

Several people sat together with a map of Changping and began to study the zoning problem. The best thing to do is to start from the Ming Tombs. After all, it is the hometown of Li Bowen and Fox. They can find acquaintances in the surrounding villages. Now that they have the factory's letter of introduction and purchase order, they believe that the village chiefs will give them face.

The rest can only be conquered slowly. There are more than one purchasing agents from their factory in this city. Purchases are everywhere. It is not easy to snatch food from other people's mouths.

After the discussion was finally over, Lin Dong said, "Then I will take them to run more in the next two days, familiarize them with the route, and teach them all the moves that need to be taught. How about we start running again after that!"

"Okay, let's do it this way. Thank you for your hard work. I'll treat you to a good meal tonight!" Li Bowen said, patting Lin Dong on the shoulder.

The four of them waited in Li Bowen's office until the end of get off work before getting up and walking out. As soon as they got downstairs, they saw Yu Haitang and Li Mei waiting downstairs.

"Big sister, you and Haitang should go find uncle and go home with him!" Li Bowen walked over and said to them.

Yu Haitang asked curiously, "Brother-in-law, where are you going?"

"Let's go out for dinner and get together!"

"I want to go too!" Yu Haitang's eyes lit up when she heard about going to a restaurant.

"We are four grown men, what are you going to do?"

"I'll take Li Mei with me, so I'm not the only woman anymore!" Yu Haitang pulled Li Mei over directly.

Li Bowen smiled and shook his head: "I really can't do anything with you. Let's go and talk to uncle first. What do you two want to eat?"

"Hot pot! Hot pot!" Yu Haitang shouted excitedly.

After waiting at the factory gate for a while, Li Dahai came out with his hands behind his back and told him about the dinner party. They set off, and Yu Haitang ran back after just two steps: "Uncle, please go back and tell my sister to go home and tell my mom that I'm staying at your place tonight!"