Chapter 309 Director Su, do you also have the qualifications to accept reform personnel?
The next morning.
As the melody of "We Workers Have Power" slowly rang out in the factory, the entire hand tractor factory gradually woke up in the dim morning light.
After Su Wenchen finished washing up, he and Zhao Weiguo walked out of the guesthouse.
On the main roads of the entire factory area, there are already many employees wearing navy blue work clothes and pushing bicycles.
At this time, most guesthouses will not provide meals unless they receive a very large number of guests.
So Su Wenchen and Zhao Weiguo followed the crowd of employees to the factory cafeteria.
After walking along a gravel road.
Su Wenchen saw factory buildings on both sides that looked like production workshops. At this time, many employees were sitting on the steps at the door chatting with each other. They were holding a large enamel teacup in their hands and drinking hot rice porridge.
The smell of engine oil wafting from the factory behind them seemed to have no effect on them at all.
Zhao Weiguo couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw this.
"Director, why are they all sitting at the workshop door to eat? Is their cafeteria so small?"
Su Wenchen shook his head.
He didn't know what this custom was, but as far as he knew, some places did seem to have some special customs.
For example, some people like to eat while squatting, and some even don’t sit on chairs but squat on them to eat.
Although he didn't understand the meaning of it, he wouldn't comment too much on other people's habits.
"I don't know either, maybe it's the custom here!"
Zhao Weiguo scratched his head.
"But I haven't heard of such a custom among the workers in the production team of the branch farm!"
"Although it's spring now, won't your butt freeze if you sit on the cold steps early in the morning?"
When entering the factory cafeteria, Su Wenchen also understood why these people were eating at the door of the workshop.
Because the cafeteria is so big, only the front row of tables have stools.
There was a long row of tables at the back, all of which were empty.
Zhao Weiguo said a little indignantly when he saw this.
"Their factory doesn't look like it's broke! Did they deliberately provide only tables and no stools?
"Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for the employees by not allowing them to eat in the cafeteria?"
However, after Su Wenchen looked around, he found that this was not necessarily the case, because there were stools at the tables in the front row, but few employees sat there.
If they were really trying to make things difficult for people, he felt that the current employees were not the kind of people who could tolerate such injustice.
There must be something going on in the factory that he doesn't know about.
At this moment, Li Xingguo, who was eating at the table in the front row, also saw Su Wenchen.
He shouted directly at Su Wenchen at the door.
"Director Su, you're up so early!"
After hearing the sound, Su Wenchen also walked over with Zhao Weiguo.
"Haha, Director Li, you're joking! You've already started eating, and you're still saying it's early!"
Li Xingguo put down the chopsticks in his hand and said helplessly.
"My colleagues from the bureau and the police haven't slept all night!"
"This is just a preliminary step to sorting out the situation over there."
"By the way, hurry up and get some food! Don't run out soon. I'll talk to you later."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he glanced at Li Xingguo, whose face was obviously a little tired, and nodded.
"Okay, I'll go get some food first!"
Come to the food window.
Su Wenchen was still a little curious about what breakfast was like in other factories at this time.
Because in addition to eating most of the time in the canteen in his own field, he also often went to the canteens of various government agencies.
So he was really curious about the factory cafeteria at this time.
After walking to the window, Su Wenchen found that the food there was indeed quite different from that in their farm. The staple food was only the multi-grain steamed buns commonly known as wo wo tou.
Two cents plus a two-liang food coupon, and each person can buy a maximum of two!
Corn grits porridge costs one cent a bowl, and although no food coupons are required, Su Wenchen knew from the familiar appearance of the porridge that it was the kind made from cornmeal that is crushed with corn cobs.
Because in the first few years after he came here, Pingcun Brigade was not as well-off as it is now, so his family often drank this kind of tea at that time, but sometimes they would add some wild vegetables to it.
Su Wenchen took another look at the side dishes and found that they were far less abundant than those in their factory. There were only pickled radish strips and pickled beans mixed together.
Since the pickles were free and had to be picked by yourself in a large basin, Su Wenchen found that there were very few fermented soybeans in it. He didn't know whether they had all been picked away by the employees or if they simply didn't want to put much in.
Since he had no appetite, Su Wenchen only spent one cent and ordered a large teacup of corn grits porridge and a small dish of pickles.
The canteen chef who served porridge to Su Wenchen was a little puzzled for a moment, because he rarely saw cadres from other places who were so stingy with him.
On the contrary, Zhao Weiguo seemed to think that the conditions at the branch farm might not be as good as here, so he directly asked for two multi-grain steamed buns, a big bowl of corn grits porridge, and a big plate full of pickles.
Holding a bowl of porridge, he sat opposite Li Xingguo.
The other party saw that Su Wenchen had only a bowl of porridge and a plate of pickles.
"Hey, look at me, Director Su, I'm sorry, I was so busy that I forgot you might not have brought your food coupons!"
As he said this, he was about to take out his food coupons, but Su Wenchen quickly stopped him.
"Director Xingguo, it's not that I didn't bring my food coupons, it's just that I ate too much last night and have no appetite this morning."
"If you don't believe me, look at the one in my unit!"
As he spoke, he pointed to Zhao Weiguo, who was not far away and was biting off half of a multi-grain steamed bun, then taking several bites of pickles, and finally taking a big mouthful of corn porridge.
On this side, Zhao Weiguo saw Su Wenchen and Li Xingguo looking at him in the distance.
He immediately forced himself to swallow the food in his mouth.
"Director, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"It's okay, it's just how you eat!"
"It's delicious! The pickled soybeans here are good, but a little lacking. Director, I think we can learn from them and ask the canteen chef to add a new side dish."
"Director, you always say food is the most important thing for people! I heard the canteen at the main farm has added a crab-like side dish. We can't just not have one more soybean sauce at the branch farm!"
Su Wenchen suddenly said in a bad mood.
"Alright, eat your food! If someone didn't know you, they would think you were from the logistics department!"
Seeing this, Li Xingguo knew that Su Wenchen was not being polite to him, so he smiled directly.
"Haha, Director Su, Section Chief Zhao from your field is quite interesting!"
"But it's true. Employees need to eat well before they have the strength to work! A company that keeps cutting back on its employees' food rations won't see any significant development."
"Su Wenchen, if your farm needs it, you can send someone to learn it. This is not a machine blueprint from our factory."
"Let me tell you, the chefs in our factory are quite skilled at pickling these fermented beans. Our fermented tofu is also in limited supply, on a first-come, first-served basis. If you come late, you won't be able to eat anything."
As he said that, he pushed a small plate on his side towards Su Wenchen.
"Director Su, if you don't believe me, try it!"
This was the first time Su Wenchen had eaten fermented bean curd in this era. He had heard that some places in Lan City made it themselves, but no one in his family knew how to make it.
So Su Wenchen picked up a piece of food with chopsticks out of curiosity.
After taking a bite, I found that it was very salty, but the bean aroma was indeed very strong, and the aftertaste was still slightly salty and astringent.
But after taking another sip of porridge, Su Wenchen felt that it was just right.
At this time, it is indeed a very good dish to go with porridge.
Of course, after looking around, Su Wenchen found that generally no one used it simply as a side dish for porridge, because many people ate it with multi-grain steamed buns.
If it were at the main farm, it might be better, but at the branch farm, this fermented bean curd seems to be a good dish.
So he responded with a smile.
"Director Xingguo, if you say that, I'll take it seriously!"
"I'll send someone to learn from you later!"
"After all, the conditions at our branch farm are indeed a bit rudimentary, especially with spring plowing just around the corner. It would be nice to be able to slightly improve the food allowance for the farm workers!"
When Li Xingguo heard this, the smile on his face became even wider, and he agreed immediately.
"No problem, I'll take care of this little thing!"
Then after taking two bites of food, he mentioned it as if casually.
"Director Su, is your Blue Water Farm also qualified to accept reformed personnel?"
Su Wenchen was stunned when he heard this, and put down the teacup he had just picked up for a moment.
"Accepting transformation personnel?"
"We do have the qualifications to accept them, but we generally don't accept them. What's going on? Has anyone in your factory committed a crime?"
"Send it to another farm!"
To be honest, their farm does have the qualifications, but Su Wenchen found it troublesome and never contacted the local public security department.
Because those who have committed crimes can indeed be used to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, but a special department must also be set up to manage these people.
Su Wenchen generally doesn't like to take on things like this that don't bring much benefit but are extremely troublesome.
Since they were a farm under the ministry, the local authorities had no way of forcibly sending people to them, so he had never considered this issue before.
Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Li Xingguo sighed and explained directly.
"It's not our factory. You know it's the agricultural machinery factory."
"We sorted out their accounts last night, and the police arrested quite a few people. Most of them have confessed to the crime."
"For those who harm national interests, the city requires strict punishment, so there is no problem in directly dealing with these people who embezzled state property."
"But there are some people who, while they have no problem telling the truth in other aspects, secretly dismantled your equipment. This is something that cannot be ignored."
"But we couldn't just execute them all, so early in the morning the bureau called the provincial government to inquire about how to handle this matter."
"Especially this morning, the provincial government called and said that if it doesn't cause significant damage to the country, labor reform should still be the main focus."
(End of this chapter)
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