When foreign employees were coming, Xing Baohua notified the relevant municipal departments in advance. As for the welcoming arrangements, Xing Baohua also contacted the city's long-distance bus station to arrange two buses to assist in picking them up on the same day.

As for accommodation for foreign staff, the factory dormitories are sufficient.

There aren't many people coming; two people can share a house, which is enough.

Fortunately, we gritted our teeth and bought a few staff housing units back then; otherwise, just staying in hotels would have been incredibly expensive.

In the following days, I heard that the director of the municipal machinery factory was parachuted in from the provincial machinery department.

The city originally wanted to select someone from the locals, but it seems that the higher-ups forced them to comply, so they had no choice but to compromise.

Regardless of who becomes the factory director, it has nothing to do with Xing Baohua anymore. The era of Director Li is over, and Xing Baohua owes the factory nothing.

The only thing I owe is a favor to Factory Director Li.

To Xing Baohua's surprise, the newly appointed factory director started a fire as soon as he took office.

After the investigation, both Directors Xue and Liu were stripped of their positions and demoted to ordinary office staff.

Those who were loyal to Director Li during his era have basically been marginalized.

As expected of someone from the provincial department, his movements were swift and ruthless, decisive and experienced.

Xing Baohua was delighted and immediately drove to the machinery factory.

He went straight to the office, and sure enough, some familiar faces had been replaced by strangers. Fortunately, most people recognized him.

"Director Xing, who are you looking for?" one of the familiar-looking men asked, standing up from his desk.

"Who is in charge of the office now?" Xing Baohua asked.

Director Hou

"Hou Liwei? Deputy Director or Director?" Xing Baohua asked.

"Correct."

Xing Baohua nodded and said, "Should we go to Director Xue's office to find him?"

Seeing the other party nod, Xing Baohua turned and left, walked to the former Director Xue's office, knocked on the door, but received no response.

When she was about to return to the general office, she unexpectedly ran into Hu Jiangyan, who sat across from Su Ya in her office.

Upon closer inspection, her demeanor had changed, and she held her head higher.

When he saw Xing Baohua, the other party was slightly taken aback, then snorted coldly and left.

Xing Baohua was somewhat puzzled. Was this person getting more and more arrogant, or had he risen to a higher status and no longer cared about anyone?

When I arrived at the general office, I asked someone to look for Hou Liwei and inquire about Hu Jiangyan. To my surprise, she had become the factory secretary.

This was the work that Hou Liwei had done before.

Hou Liwei used to be Director Li's secretary. If it weren't for his powerful father, he probably would have been fired too.

After gaining experience as the deputy director of the fifth workshop, it's normal to be promoted one level when returning to administration. It's just that the speed of promotion is too fast, which is quite unsettling.

The employee who was looking for Hou Liwei said that Director Hou was reporting to the factory director in the factory director's office, and the factory director heard that Director Xing had come and asked him to come over.

Although Xing Baohua did not want to disturb the new factory director, he only wanted to process his father's medical retirement and resign from his nominal position.

Drawing a salary without doing any work is considered "ghost employment," making one vulnerable to manipulation.

Upon arriving at the office, apart from the new factory manager whom he didn't recognize, only Hou Liwei and Hu Jiangyan were present.

With Hou Liwei's help in the introduction, the new factory manager was named Lu Guangwei.

Xing Baohua is no small figure now; he can sit on equal footing with the factory director of the machinery plant.

Even when Director Li was in office, he was on equal footing with him. But Xing Baohua willingly lowered his head, after all, it was a matter of seniority. He was still the old leader, so lowering his head was nothing.

Things are different now. Apart from the number of people, there are not as many as the machinery factories! But in terms of area and financial resources, even a dozen machinery factories cannot match his current enterprise.

There wasn't much to talk about with the new factory director. After saying "I've heard so much about you," Xing Baohua turned to Hou Liwei and said, "I'm here to help my dad with his medical retirement procedures. Although he'll be retiring in a year, his health won't allow him to wait that long; it's just a matter of time. Also, didn't I previously hold the position of consultant for the fifth workshop? Could you help me get that position removed?"

Hou Liwei didn't speak, but looked at the new factory director, Lu Guangwei.

"Oh dear! I've only just taken office and I'm so busy I haven't even seen Deputy Factory Director Xing yet. How's your health? Maybe I should go visit him tomorrow. As for his retirement due to illness, maybe we should wait! He's been a veteran comrade for so many years; the factory can't do without him!"

Xing Baohua still felt awkward hearing such words spoken in public.

So he said, "I can't visit Director Lu anymore. The medical conditions in the city are not good enough, so I sent him to the capital. I was worried that the medical conditions in the capital were not good enough, so I applied to the city to get the necessary procedures done and prepared to take him to see a doctor outside."

Before Director Lu and Hou Liwei could say anything, Hu Jiangyan interjected, "Why are you the only ones who are special? You want to go out for medical treatment? Let me tell you, the factory only reimburses medical expenses at the municipal hospital; other places are out-of-pocket."

Xing Baohua did not refute, but smiled slightly and said to Director Lu, "Your secretary needs more training."

Then he turned to Hou Liwei and said, "Director Hou, you also came from a factory secretarial background, didn't you pass on some experience to your sister?"

"Xing Baohua, how can you talk like that? I'm reminding you not to take advantage of the factory." Hu Jiangyan was getting a little anxious when she saw Xing Baohua behaving so disrespectfully towards her.

"You go out first?" Factory Director Li said sternly to Hu Jiangyan with a stern face.

"I'm sorry, Director Xing, my secretary is a bit clueless and made you laugh," Director Lu said.

"It's alright. We were colleagues before, and we know each other's temperaments and personalities, right, Director Hou?" Xing Baohua waved his hand with a smile, leaving the conversation to Hou Liwei.

Hou Liwei has shown promise after two years of training.

He immediately replied, "I'll notify the personnel department to process Deputy Factory Director Xing's medical retirement procedures in a moment. That includes removing your consultant title as well."

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