Back at the Yu family, Yu Lianren was still indignant when he thought of Xiang Meimei's attitude, and began to think about which designer had good talent to recommend to Xiang.

Talents emerge in every generation, and the R&D department is not Chen Wei’s world alone!

Anyway, Chen Wei is not as energetic as the young people at his age. As long as Yu Lianren finds a similar replacement, he can also show his goodwill to the new factory director Xin Lu.

By the way, he can also develop his own network of contacts so that if he gets into trouble in the future, there will be someone to help him.

Why wouldn't he do something that would kill two birds with one stone?

If he is lucky enough to find a better horse than Chen Wei, he will make a fortune in this business!

Maybe he is the second factory director Gu Tiejun, and he can even be recorded in the factory annals, so impressive~

While Yu Lianren was thinking about who he could win over in the design studio, Chen Wei was already preparing the process for his promotion to deputy factory director after the new year.

He has been spending all his time in the laboratory, researching what materials are light and cheap that can reduce costs for the factory.

Previously, they were made of steel or alloys from steel mills, which were heavy and inconvenient to carry.

The key point is that the cost is very high. The factory director and Chen Wei have been committed to finding a lightweight, simple and affordable alternative so that lighters can enter thousands of households like matches.

Chen Wei led the designers to try many varieties and have already identified several materials, which they are currently experimenting with one by one.

The new designer Gu Qiang was only 16 years old and had just graduated. He was not familiar with the work process yet, so everyone treated him like a child.

But he always had wild ideas in his mind. Seeing everyone busy working, he also clumsily tried many strange materials, even iron and wood with mortise and tenon structures.

Sometimes when Chen Wei was tired from doing experiments, he would take a break from his busy schedule to give him some pointers.

This child is neither arrogant nor impatient, and can accept criticism humbly. He doesn't get angry when his mistakes are pointed out. He touches the back of his head and smiles, always saying that he will listen to Brother Chen.

In fact, this is also good. The most important thing for people is to recognize their own abilities and status, and not to be blindly confident.

He would also take the materials selected by Chen Wei and combine them when he had nothing to do to see if he could piece together a lightweight and durable lighter.

Even if Gu Qiang couldn't produce a perfect product, at least he had tried all the wrong paths. Chen Wei also saved a lot of effort and didn't have to try this failed plan again.

In a sense, Gu Qiang's approach helped Chen Wei speed up his progress.

They worked day and night in the factory laboratory, making it impossible for Yu Lianren to find a breakthrough.

Even if Yu Lianren was lucky enough to catch two designers, they would shake their heads quickly when they heard his purpose: "Director Yu, please find someone else. Brother Chen treats us well..."

Yu Lianren was unwilling to give up, and he persevered in making many big promises to fool them.

Unfortunately, Chen Wei had already drawn the pie in the sky for them, and some people had even eaten it. Isn't it better to work hard to follow a leader who draws pie in the sky and feeds them pie than to be fooled by a stranger?

Yu Lianren failed two or three times, and only when he saw that there was no hope did he slowly give up the idea.

Without exception, all of these people who were recruited told Chen Wei privately that they were being poached and asked him to be careful of Yu Lianren.

This was originally a critical juncture in the experiment, and Yu Lianren's actions made Chen Wei very angry. What was he trying to do?

This made his employees feel uneasy. It seemed that Yu Lianren was too idle. As a result of Chen Wei's unhappiness, he designed several packaging boxes with complicated packaging.

The excuse is that it is almost the end of the year and a new packaging is needed to improve sales performance.

Within a month, Yu Lianren, the packaging warehouse supervisor, was so busy that he had no time to take care of Chen Wei.

In the past, boxes were simple and only required two or three steps to complete. Today, boxes require seven or eight steps and are prone to errors, but they do look magnificent.

Sales also increased, so it was useless for Yu Lianren to complain.

On the contrary, because he did not manage the packaging work well, the employees made more mistakes, the return rate increased, and he was criticized by the new factory director Xin Lu.

It was the time when a new official was about to start his work, and Yu Lianren made such a big mistake. Wasn't he being killed as an example to warn others?

You have to know that the mistakes made by Yu Lianren have caused a lot of customer complaints, and the after-sales service is very busy. It is not easy for him to favor Yu Lianren in front of so many people in the factory.

Besides, this person just asked Mr. Zhao’s relationship to ask Xin Lu to exempt him from the punishment of dismissal, but it is not a golden ticket to immunity from death!

Yu Lianren felt very aggrieved and at one point suspected that Chen Wei was plotting against him, but he had no substantial evidence.

Moreover, at that time, the old factory director Gu Tiejun had not retired yet, so Xin Lu did not dare to confront him head-on, let alone someone of Yu Lianren's level.

While Chen Wei was busy dealing with Yu Lianren, the Xiang family received good news.

Zhang Jidi was overjoyed: "Lili, are you serious? Did you really get a promotion?"