Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

Yang Weiguo was criticized as a typical example by the leaders of the Ministry of Industry this time. Last year, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill was under pressure to complete production targets because it was expanding its workshops. Therefore, Yang Weiguo was not criticized last year. He was not aware of the lack of emergency measures in the factory for a long time. This heavy snow exposed the problems of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill all of a sudden.

The most important thing is that Yang Weiguo and Li Huaide have been fighting for power and profit in recent years, and they have put a lot of pressure on various departments, forcing many people to stand on Li Huaide's side. For example, Zhang Renkang, although he was promoted by Li Huaide at the beginning, he did not have too many ideas against Yang Weiguo. For the sake of his own ambitions and political achievements, Yang Weiguo forced him to work with Li Huaide to set a trap for Yang Weiguo.

Except for the production department and the financial department, which Yang Weiguo firmly controlled, almost all other departments of the factory had already been surrendered to Li Huaide. Yang Weiguo looked at the silent heads of various departments below, and his anger could no longer be controlled. He called out the names and shouted:

"Wang Huairen, what are the plans for the various workshops in your production department?"

Although Wang Huairen of the Production Department is the deputy director, Yang Weiguo has always been the director of the factory's production department. He is actually the top leader. Wang Huairen stood up and said with fear.

"Director, I have informed the workshop directors of each workshop to gather all the workers to start production tomorrow morning. However, our factory does not have enough coal reserves, so the smelting and forging work in workshops 246 cannot proceed normally."

As soon as Wang Huairen finished speaking, the head of the Transportation Department also stood up and said

"Director, the heavy snow has blocked the roads. I just contacted the railway department. The coal truck will not be able to leave for five days at the earliest. In addition, it is snowing even harder in Baotou. I sent a telegram but there has been no reply yet. We don't know when we can get the coal."

Yang Weiguo looked at the director of the warehouse management department, and the director of the warehouse management department (deputy director level) Li Ming said

"The coal in our warehouse can last for ten days if used normally, and the rice and flour can meet the needs of a week, but the meat we previously stored is basically used up."

Yang Weiguo looked at everyone. He was actually prepared for the current situation. How could he not count the reserves in the factory? He wanted to get a batch of coal from Shanxi in order to get a new project to land, and also to make some reserves for the factory. After all, there was still a lot of vacant land in the factory, so it was not a bad thing to reserve a batch of coal. He just didn't expect Zhang Renkang to rebound so much.

Yang Weiguo looked at Li Huaide and turned to the crowd and said

"At present, we have three problems. The first is to resume production as soon as possible. The production department and the publicity department must mobilize workers to return to the factory to resume production."

"Second, the R&D and maintenance departments should maintain and inspect the factory's machinery as soon as possible to avoid delaying production."

"Third, regarding this material issue, please ask the Procurement Department and the Planning Department to pay attention to it and we will study it."

The meeting was over and everyone was asked to get back to work. Yang Weiguo and Li Huaide left Zhang Renkang and Liu Zhi, the head of the purchasing department. Yang Weiguo saw that everyone had left and looked at Zhang Renkang and Liu Zhi and sighed.

"You two have heard what Director Li Ming said about the current situation at the factory. Can you share your thoughts?"

Liu Zhiwei is

"Director, the roads are blocked by heavy snow everywhere. We can't go down. Even if we go down, we don't know whether we can purchase goods or help the village with poverty alleviation."

Liu Zhi was at a loss. Except for the main roads out of the city, no one was in charge of the other branches and small roads. There were few cement roads, only dirt roads. The bicycles from the purchasing department could not go down. It was so cold and snowy, and the villagers did not place orders for chickens and ducks. Maybe the village was short of food.

Yang Weiguo knew that Liu Zhi had no other options except for the supplies from a few fixed communes and those allocated by the higher authorities. Besides, he was not thinking about Liu Zhi's things. He looked at Zhang Renkang and asked

"Renkang, do you have any suitable solution?"

Zhang Renkang looked at Yang Weiguo, shook his head and said in a low voice

"Director, I don't think they can give it to us right now. Besides, the last matter hasn't been resolved yet."

Yang Weiguo looked at Zhang Renkang without saying a word, and Zhang Renkang continued with a blank expression.

"They are very dissatisfied with us now, you have to give me some time."

Li Huaide said at this time

"Renkang, the situation at the factory is indeed urgent. Can you try to get some back?"

Zhang Renkang was puzzled when he saw Li Huaide speak, but he still nodded and said

"I'll try my best"

After that, Li Huaide said

"Liu Zhi, you guys can't slack off and hurry up to restore external procurement channels."

After Liu Zhi nodded in agreement, Li Huaide said to Yang Weiguo

"Director Yang, our biggest problem now is coal. I'll go back and talk to the department to see if we can get some of the coal reserves outside the city. You'll have to worry about the rest."

After the conversation, Yang Weiguo and Secretary Liu left first. Zhang Renkang was called to the office by Li Huaide. After entering the office, Li Huaide motioned Zhang Renkang to sit down and said

"Renkang, I have reached an agreement with Yang Weiguo. We must ensure that at least the production targets are met this month. The military industry urgently needs the special steel from our factory to produce tanks, so this matter cannot be delayed. Do you have any questions?"

Zhang Renkang laughed

"I communicated with Secretary Zhao a few days ago and coordinated some of the arrangements for them. So we will temporarily bring them to our factory. I will go to the textile factory tomorrow to explain and give it to them a few days later."

Li Huaide nodded and said

"I told you this when I got back. Don't worry about it. Just get it for emergency use. We plan to work in two shifts during this period. You guys in the canteen should also be prepared. Especially the canteen needs to be on duty at night to provide meals. You should think about the plan."

Zhang Renkang nodded and said

"Director, there is another problem. How do we transport the goods into the factory? They can only send the goods outside the city and quarantine them."

Li Huaide thought about it

"We are going to go outside the city to get coal tomorrow. You can ask Chen Wei to follow the coal truck behind the scenes. When the time comes, let him fall behind and receive the supplies by himself. Ask the security department to send two people with guns to follow. With Chen Wei, there will be no problem with safety."

Zhang Renkang nodded and said

"Okay, I'll make the arrangements, then go back to the compound to organize the people around our compound and go back to the factory to resume work."

Li Huaide gave a few instructions, and Zhang Renkang went to the security department first to talk to Chen Gang about asking Chen Wei to come back to work tomorrow, and then hurried back to the courtyard.

It was already noon when Zhang Renkang returned to the courtyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Liu Haizhong, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Donglai and other employees of the steel rolling mill in the middle courtyard, as well as a few unfamiliar men. Seeing Zhang Renkang coming back, Liu Haizhong quickly came up to him.

"Renkang, you're back. What are they saying at the factory?"

Zhang Renkang looked at the crowd and asked about these unfamiliar faces. Liu Donglai explained:

"Renkang, these are people from our factory from several nearby factories. They are here to inquire about the news."

It turned out that although this area was the steel mill's family compound, no leaders from the factory lived here. Zhang Renkang was already the highest-ranking leader in the surrounding factories, and representatives from other compounds had sent here to inquire about the news.

After Zhang Renkang knew the identities of the people, he pressed his hands together and said

"That's great. Let me tell you about the situation at the factory."

"In the past few days, apart from the security department on duty, there are basically no workers in the factory, so no work has started. Tomorrow morning, everyone will notify the surrounding workers to return to the factory to work at normal times."

"The factory has delayed a lot of production tasks in the past few days, so we need to speed up the progress in the next ten days."

After saying that, he looked at the crowd and asked

"Have all the representatives from the surrounding courtyards arrived? Are there any who haven't come yet?"

Seeing Zhang Renkang asking questions, one of them said

"Chief Zhang, we are all here. We are here just to get information."

Zhang Renkang nodded and said

"Don't forget to go back to the factory early tomorrow morning and tell your families. We may get off work a little late tomorrow."

After informing everyone, Zhang Renkang sent them back to inform their fellow workers. Liu Haizhong asked worriedly:

"Renkang, do you think the higher-ups will blame us for delaying our production?"

Liu Haizhong regretted why he didn't go to the factory at this time. If the factory leaders saw his performance, it would be easy for him to make some progress.

Zhang Renkang shook his head and said

"That won't happen, but the delayed production targets will probably have to be made up during this period. I think we may ask for everyone's opinions and work overtime later."

Liu Haizhong nodded and said

"What should we do with Jia Zhang in our courtyard? She went crazy as soon as she had a little strength. We just managed to tie her up with great difficulty."

Jia Zhang had been lying in bed for a long time since early morning. She only regained some strength after drinking a bowl of millet porridge sent by Yi Zhonghai. Just now, everyone was clearing the snow and when they didn't notice, Jia Zhang ran out like crazy and rushed to the Jia family. After knocking Qin Huairu over, she wanted to take the old Jia's urn and shouted that she wanted painkillers.

Liu Haizhong and Yan Jiecheng in the courtyard finally managed to pin Jia Zhang to the ground, and with the help of the people who came, they tied Jia Zhang back to the pillar.