Chapter 393
The news that Dongfang Daily Chemical Factory was to be acquired and merged spread from an unknown source, causing emotional turmoil among the factory's workers.
Everyone thought that a thorough investigation of the Yang family's case would save the company from collapse, but unexpectedly, this day still came so quickly and so suddenly.
The workers had lost their will to work and gathered in large groups in front of the factory, demanding a work stoppage in protest.
Protesting factory mergers, protesting worker layoffs, protesting job losses!
However, under the prevailing trend, the voices of such a small group of people are of little use.
Ji Xingguo initially stepped forward as the factory director to speak, calming everyone down, urging them not to cause trouble, and to resume production.
However, once the public gets emotional, gathers in large groups, and blindly follows others, no one's words matter, and the uproar continues.
Most of the workers still trusted Ji Xingguo, the factory manager. He said he would find a solution, so they believed he could. After making a fuss for a while, they went back to work.
However, there was always a small group of restless and impatient people who, no matter how much Ji Xingguo tried to persuade them, felt that only by making a big fuss could they protect their own interests.
That small group of people continued their strike while sitting on the dam.
Ji Xingguo has been concerned about this matter for so long, yet he has been criticized by the workers for being heartless, just like those high-ranking officials who are ignorant of the suffering of ordinary people and only care about themselves, not the lives of the workers.
Ji Xingguo was furious. After trying to calm things down several times, he saw that the irrational workers were stubborn and refused to listen. He got so angry that he went back to his office, closed the door, and ignored them!
Let them make a fuss if they want to.
That's how people are; when their own interests aren't involved, they'll agree to anything anyone says.
When his own interests are involved, even if he, as the head of the factory, speaks out, it's as if he's making an enemy of everyone.
Those who led the riots were just worried that when layoffs came, they would be the first to be laid off.
People who are not proactive at work and take shortcuts are only proactive when it comes to causing trouble or going on strike. Even if they are not laid off today, they will not amount to anything in other places in the future.
They are shortsighted, focusing only on the immediate gains of a few grains of rice.
At that very moment, Ji Wanmei and Lei Tingjun on the other side had also begun to take action.
While raising funds, they contacted the relevant management departments of the municipal state-owned assets and submitted an application for approval to purchase Pingquan County Dongfang Daily Chemical Factory.
Over the past few years, Lei Tingjun has built a solid foundation and extensive network in Pingdong City, and has good relationships with many relevant planning and management leaders in the city.
Although Dongfang Factory was considered to have a good performance among the factories under the jurisdiction of Pingdong City, the reform of its system was an inevitable trend. Moreover, Dongfang Factory had been involved in a major corruption and money laundering case that shocked the entire province. From the perspective of the higher-level leaders, there was no need to save the factory anymore.
Merging it with the city's daily chemical factory was its final destination, but now that a private entrepreneur has come along and is willing to invest in buying this factory that was originally going to be incorporated, that's naturally a good thing.
There have been precedents in other places for state-owned factories to be converted into private factories.
However, in Pingdong City, there isn't yet a pioneering and generous private entrepreneur with the courage to be the first to do something like this.
Thunder Army dares to do it.
Once the application was submitted, it quickly entered the state-owned asset auction process.
Ji Wanmei wanted to surprise her father, so she didn't tell him about this during the initial preparation and procedures.
Every time she called home, she would advise him to let things take their course and relax, saying that he had done his best for the factory over the years, and that even if the factory was merged, he shouldn't have any regrets, as she and Lei Tingjun would take care of him in his old age.
Ji Xingguo could only sulk in silence, thinking to himself that the factory wasn't her hard work, so of course she was talking nonsense without understanding the situation.
Then one day, a document came down from the city, instructing Ji Xingguo to immediately organize the factory's existing equipment, production data, and archived documents, and then take these things to a meeting in the city.
The notice told him that Dongfang Daily Chemical Factory was about to enter the state-owned asset auction process.
As the factory director, Ji Xingguo was naturally the first in the Dongfang Factory to receive this news. The higher-ups would then call him to a meeting to participate in the subsequent procedures and pricing decisions.
When Ji Xingguo heard this news, he was shocked!
A mysterious figure has offered to buy the Oriental Factory?!
Who exactly is it?
Ji Xingguo was most concerned about this question: what mysterious person would buy the Oriental Factory, and what did he intend to do with it?
Ji Xingguo didn't dare reveal this news to his subordinates; currently, he's the only one in the entire factory who knows it.
But after thinking it over and over, he still felt very strange, so when he got home that day, he called his daughter Ji Wanmei again.
It was only when things were finally looking up that Ji Wanmei finally told her father, "That mysterious man is your future son-in-law, my fiancé, Lei Tingjun."
Ji Xingguo was stunned: "Lei Tingjun? What's he going to do with the Oriental Factory?!"
Lei Tingjun works in development engineering and real estate, so why has he suddenly become interested in daily chemical and department store products?
Ji Xingguo was puzzled.
Ji Wanmei smiled: "What are you thinking? Of course, I asked him to buy it."
Because if the purchase were made in Ji Wanmei's name, her direct father-daughter relationship with Ji Xingguo, the factory director, would be a sensitive issue within the system. Therefore, to avoid any appearance of impropriety, the acquisition was carried out in Lei Tingjun's name.
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