Chapter 140
Before he said this, Ye Manzhi had already thought it through clearly.
In the newly established leading group, Luo Ting is the group leader and Xia Zhuyun is the deputy group leader, responsible for the specific work of rectification and closure.
As the secretary of the deputy team leader, she has to be more or less exposed to some matters related to rectification.
Just like when she went to Beijing before and invited companies from other provinces and cities to participate in the production competition, she actually helped a lot in running errands and finding solutions, and her role was similar to that of an office director.
I have to work anyway, so instead of working for nothing as the leader's secretary, I might as well have a formal name on the leadership team.
If the work is done well, it will be her contribution. If it is done badly, it is no big deal. Everyone knows that this job is difficult.
"My decision this time was made after careful consideration. It was not impulsive. Someone has to do the work." Ye Manyi leaned against the edge of the swimming pool and took a deep breath.
Wu Zhengrong encouraged her seriously, "Since you're the office director, you should do your job well. Our compound's security is pretty strict, so it shouldn't be a problem for someone to break the windows."
Ye Manzhi: “…”
I was almost moved.
She casually threw a handful of water at the man's face, but accidentally hurt the little girl who was sandwiched between them.
"Mom!" Wu Yuzhuo screamed, put on her swimming ring, and swam away like a little duck.
The safety rope on the swimming ring was still tied to Wu Zhengrong's wrist. Neither the couple paid any attention to the little duck and continued with their previous topic.
"Teacher Xia is a promising person. Since she's brave enough to take on this job, she'll definitely find a way to complete it. For a small fry like me, all I have to do is follow my leader and do my job well."
Wu Zhengrong summed it up for her: "Even if the sky falls, there's always someone taller to hold it up."
The office director is responsible for the daily work of the leading group office. Ye Lai Ya is supervised by the director and deputy director. A small cadre like her is not qualified to attract fire and hatred. Everyone knows that she is just an errand runner.
Therefore, Wu Zhengrong is not worried about the safety of his window glass.
He checked the time and asked, "Do you want to swim again?"
"No more swimming," Ye Manzhi waved her hand quickly, "Go look after Youyan."
The swimming pool in the swimming pool is fifty meters long. After she swam four laps, she felt like her lungs were about to explode.
With her physical strength, swimming 400 meters is her limit, and swimming one meter more would be beyond her ability.
"Keep exercising every day," Wu Zhengrong said with a smile, "By then, everyone else will have successfully crossed the river, but you'll only be able to swim 200 meters."
Ye Manzhi corrected her: "I can swim 400 meters!"
"If you really swam 400 meters," Wu Zhengrong asked, "will you still have the energy to swim back to shore?"
Ye Manzhi: “…”
That’s right, she couldn’t just stay in the middle of the river waiting for rescue.
With so many people swimming together, the safety boat may not be able to rescue them.
How about she try harder and swim 500 meters in one breath?
In any case, this summer's activity of sailing on rivers, lakes and seas can indeed enhance physical fitness and liven up life.
At first she could only swim two and a half laps in the pool, but now she can swim four laps.
If I work hard for another half a month, maybe swimming five round trips will not be a dream!
…
Ye Manzhi worked hard to improve his physical fitness while waiting for the leadership team to officially start work.
After her, the only person who took the initiative to volunteer to Xia Zhuyun was Zhao Guilin.
Section Chief Zhao had a similar idea to Ye Manzhi. Most of the small factories to be closed this time were in the light industry sector, and Comprehensive Section 3 was in charge of this area. He couldn't escape even if he wanted to, so he might as well take the initiative to get closer to the leadership and consolidate his position as the first pawn.
Apart from the two of them, no other cadres above the rank of section chief volunteered.
Xia Zhuyun was not anxious about this situation. This was an important job in the department. Since no one volunteered, she took the initiative to call the names.
The Chemical and Light Industry Department, Planning Department, Finance Department, Production Scheduling Department, and Supply and Marketing Bureau shall each select two people to join the leadership group, one of whom must be the director or deputy director of the department (bureau).
The departments that were named cannot refuse to join, so let’s work together.
After the personnel were in place, Xia Zhuyun held a mobilization meeting for everyone, and then asked Ye Manzhi, the office director, to draft a closure notice and distribute it to the relevant departments of each city and district.
There was no movement after that.
Ye Manzhi rolled up his sleeves, ready to work hard: "???"
Is that it?
She followed Xia Zhujun and fought in many big battles.
For example, when evaluating provincial excellent products, holding food industry exhibitions, and organizing inter-provincial production competitions, Xia Zhuyun always had a decisive and action-oriented style.
He acts decisively.
This time, sending a notice in a casual manner is obviously not Xia Zhuyun's style.
She didn't understand what tricks her leader was using until half a month later, when someone wrote a joint letter to report the leadership team of the Industry Department to the Provincial People's Committee.
There were more than 30 people signed the joint letter, all of whom were directors of small breweries in Dehua District.
The brewing industry in Dehua District is very developed. There are more than 200 local state-owned breweries, public-private joint venture breweries, and collective breweries. Some are large, while others are so small that they have less than ten workers in the entire factory.
In addition to commercial departments such as the Commercial Bureau and the Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, even enterprises of a certain scale can open a small winery to be self-sufficient.
Among the small factories that the Industry Department wants to clear out this time, at least two hundred are small wineries in Dehua District.
The joint letter was sent to the General Office of the Provincial People's Committee. Xia Zhuyun did not need to appear in person for such matters. As the director of the office, Ye Manzhi went to the General Office and met with three winery representatives.
She read the joint letter once and put it aside. She said to Deputy Director Zhang, who was in charge of reception at the General Office, "Director Zhang, this work has been transferred by the Department of Industry to the Industrial Bureaus of each city and prefecture. The specific implementation will be the responsibility of the comrades in the local Industrial Bureau. If these winery representatives have any questions, please contact the comrades in the Dehua District Industrial Bureau."
Apart from the 29 directly affiliated enterprises, the Department of Industry does not directly manage other industrial enterprises. All other industrial enterprises are managed at different levels by professional companies and various special zones, cities and counties.
If any company had a problem, they would have to come to the Industrial Bureau to complain, and they would not be able to handle their daily reception work.
The director of one of the small wineries said, "Leader, we went to the Industrial Bureau, but couldn't solve the problem, so we came to the provincial government to find a solution."
Ye Manzhi sighed in embarrassment and said to the others, "Comrades, the problems at the Dehua distillery have been going on for a long time. In the past two years, due to food shortages, the planned production targets for baijiu were very low, and many distilleries run by the industrial sector had to shut down and switch production..."
Brewing wine requires a lot of grain. Why drink wine when you don’t have enough food to eat?
"The use of raw materials for brewing wine is a province-wide strategy, and local factors must be subordinated to the overall situation. This rectification and closure of some small factories is actually a task assigned to the Department of Industry by the Provincial People's Committee..."
If the provincial leaders did not agree, the Department of Industry would not have taken such a big action.
So, you came to the Provincial People's Committee to complain, but you found the wrong person.
Ye Manzhi first reminded them not to hate the wrong person, then said helplessly, "There are over 200 small distilleries in Dehua, and at least 70% of them are run by non-industrial sectors. If they keep closing down here and you keep opening up there, there won't be enough raw materials for the large distilleries."
Another factory director retorted, "The raw materials for liquor production are obtained by us factory leaders ourselves. What does it have to do with those big distilleries?"
"Director Liu, right? As I said, the entire province is a chessboard, and there's only so much raw material. If you use more, others will have to use less." Ye Manzhi spread his hands and said, "Actually, as long as your district, city, and county industrial bureaus and related companies don't report the problem, the provincial department doesn't want to close down small distilleries. The brewing industry in Dehua District is very developed, and it's considered a major feature of our province. However, according to your Dehua District Industrial Bureau, small distilleries consume too much raw materials..."
She introduced the relevant situation in a roundabout way, and the central idea was -
The provincial People's Committee issued an order to rectify and shut down small factories not run by industrial sectors. The issue of small factories hoarding raw materials was reported to higher authorities by the local industrial bureau.
No one is innocent, so don't pick on the Department of Industry to cause trouble.
Ye Manzhi pushed the joint letter back and advised earnestly, "Comrades, the rectification notice has been issued to the local industrial bureaus. The situations in different places are different, and the Industry Department has not made unified requirements. The specific implementation method is up to your local industrial bureau."
You go back and negotiate with the local industrial bureau.
The notice issued by the Department of Industry is a golden sword, and in order to ensure that its subordinate wineries can operate normally and complete the planned production tasks, the Industrial Bureau will certainly not be lenient towards these small wineries run by non-industrial departments.
Many of these small breweries are collective enterprises run by large factories. They brew wine for the factory leaders and employees for internal circulation. They work for a few months and then take a break for half a year. The problem of drawing salaries without working is also very serious.
Some small factories have serious problems of their own and cannot withstand strict inspection.
Ye Manzhi stayed in the office for half the afternoon. When she walked out of the office building, she finally understood Xia Zhuyun's thinking.
The notice issued by the Department of Industry requires that the relevant work be completed within two months.
Most small factories will not go against their superiors, and the local industrial bureau can complete the relevant work.
What the leadership team really needs to worry about is the small factory that is still mischievous and stubbornly refuses to shut down two months later.
This type of small factory usually has a mother with a strong background, and this is what Xia Zhujun needs to step in to solve.
Ye Manzhi sighed once again that the leadership level and work ideas were indeed beyond her ability to possess at the moment.
It's like taking a test in school.
She is the kind of student who picks up her pen and starts answering questions quickly after receiving the test paper.
The leaders would glance over all the questions roughly, and after having an idea of the difficulty of the test paper, they would arrange the order of answering the questions, and then the students would answer them slowly.
*
After transferring the problems of dozens of liquor factories to the Dehua Industrial Bureau, Ye Manzhi used the same method to persuade a group of people producing crude MSG and a group of people producing crude sugar to quit.
Apart from summarizing the shutdown progress in various places every two weeks, the members of the leadership team have no other serious work to do.
The leader Xia Zhuyun remained calm, and the team members gradually relaxed.
No need to worry about someone smashing your windows!
At the end of August, we all participated in the Binjiang River swimming competition organized by the Provincial People's Committee.
On the weekend of the official competition, the sky was blue, the weather was sunny, and there were as many people waiting on the river bank to watch the excitement as there were swimmers participating in the river crossing competition.
Ye Manyi participated in the competition alone, but brought a cheering team of six people with him.
Wu Zhengrong had a mission to complete and was unable to come to the riverside to watch the game, but her parents, daughter, and three nephews were all on the shore cheering her on!
"Come on, Ya, swim forty or fifty meters and come back." Old Ye pointed toward the bustling river. "It's like dumplings being cooked in the river. You can't tell who's who. You can't swim to the other side anyway, so come back early and eat some meat patties."
While warming up, Ye Manzhi said speechlessly, "Dad, I haven't even started swimming yet. Can you please stop trying to discourage me? Our director is even encouraging me to successfully cross the river and win the red flag!"
Chang Yue'e patted her grandson on the shoulder, and then saw Mai Duo take out a small red flag from his backpack.
"Here, aunt," Maiduo handed her the pennant, "the flag on the other side looks the same as our mobile health flag. When the time comes, you can hand this flag over to make up the number!"
"..." Ye Manzhi tapped his forehead, "Who told you to cheat? You're so naughty at such a young age!"
Maiduo said innocently: "My grandma asked me to bring it!"
"Oh, that's enough, I can't stand you anymore! Don't do this again next time!"
She looked disgusted and spoke in an impatient tone. Chang Yue'e thought her daughter was going to criticize her too. However, Ye Lai Ya, with an impatient look on her face, took the small red flag from Mai Duo's hand, rolled it up, and stuffed it into her red seersucker swimsuit.
The whole family: "..."
Comrade Wu Yuzhuo didn’t care about the little red flag. She was always thinking about her mission for the day!
After her mother finished warming up, she handed her the swimming ring she had been carrying all the way, and said, "Dad asked you to tie the safety rope of the swimming ring around your waist."
Ye Manzhi declined her daughter's kindness, "Baby, mommy can swim."
The swimming ring is so heavy that swimming with it is like running with a sandbag tied to it.
Wu Yuzhuo insisted on handing her the rope, "My dad said that if you don't bring a swimming ring, you won't be allowed to go in the water!"
Ye Manzhi: “…”
Dr. Wu never mentioned the topic of carrying a swimming ring to her.
Now that the time has come, he actually asked his daughter to pass on the message for him!
Under Wu Yuzhuo's insistence and her parents' persuasion, Ye Manzhi had no choice but to take the swimming ring and run to meet up with the members of the March 8th Women's Swimming Team of the Ministry of Industry.
There are 18 people in the swimming team. Before the official competition, they came to the riverside to train several times.
The ones with the most potential are Pang Ting from the Finance Department and Shen Lina from the Office.
These two people have good physical strength and good swimming skills, so they are likely to successfully cross the river.
After more than a month of training, Ye Manzhi could barely swim 450 meters, and that was in an indoor swimming pool.
As the captain of the women's team, Xia Zhujun first encouraged the female comrades, asking them to work hard, perform beyond their expectations, and strive to successfully conquer the surging river.
However, she quickly changed the subject and said, "Our department has dispatched three rescue boats, and rescue boats from other units are also floating on the river. If anyone becomes exhausted, blow the whistle immediately and wait for rescue! No showing off, no playing with your life. Do you understand?"
Ye Manzhi had a whistle hanging on her chest, an Industry Department armband on her arm, and her swimming ring in her arms. She shouted loudly, "I understand!"
"Alright," Xia Zhujun extended a hand ceremoniously. "The Industrial Department's Women's Swimming Team—"
All the team members took the hands of their companions one by one, waved them up and down three times, and shouted in unison: "Come on! Come on! Come on! Conquer the rivers, lakes, and seas! The Industrial Department's March 8th Women's Swimming Team! We will win!"
Xia Zhujun picked up the whistle and blew, "Let's go!"
The women's team was full of ceremony, and the men's team was no less so.
After shouting the slogans, Director Luo asked the team members to sing a song "Unity is Strength" on the shore.
Because the Department of Industry was so active, other teams all looked over here.
After Ye Manzhi finished shouting the slogan, she went into the water holding her swimming ring.
The river surface was sparkling, and the water was warm after being exposed to the sun for a whole morning.
She officially set off from the shore, with her little cub cheering her on at the top of his lungs behind her.
"Come on, Mom! Come on, Mom!"
Ye Manzhi paddled hard and wanted her daughter to stop shouting, as she was afraid that she would get her voice hoarse if she shouted too loudly.
Chang Yue'e, standing on the shore, nudged her husband with her elbow and said, "You've been swimming for a long time, why don't you move?"
Ye Shouxin coughed lightly and said, "Maybe the swimming ring is too heavy, affecting her performance. You see, she will have to come back after swimming forty or fifty meters."
Ye Manzhi also quickly discovered the problem with the swimming ring. Her swimming speed was obviously good, but the people around her were overtaking her one by one!
While she was muttering in her heart that Wu Zhengrong was holding her back, she moved forward even more bravely, paddling with all her might.
Successfully swam several meters.
She set a relatively low goal for herself.
The river was too wide for someone of her strength and courage to conquer.
As long as she can beat Xia Zhuyun and Deputy Director Hao, she can just blow the whistle behind them.
Secretary Xiao Ye has no psychological burden. Although she swims slowly, she has a swimming ring!
She just waited for the leaders to blow the whistle and then returned the same way.
However, within a hundred meters of the river bank, swimmers gathered together, and the team members from various units mixed together as they swam.
It is extremely difficult to find people accurately.
Ye Manzhi recalled Xia Ting's attire, and then followed closely a female comrade wearing a red swimming cap and a blue swimsuit.
She swam for a while and then took a rest with the swimming ring, and Wu Yuzhuo's childish cheering gradually disappeared.
When she remembered to look back, the figure on the shore had become very small.
She seemed to have swum to the center of the river!
This realization made her feel panicky.
Oh my God, she can only swim 450 meters in the swimming pool, and this distance may be her limit now.
How come Xia Ting can swim so well?
Ye Manzhi stretched his neck and shouted "Xia Ting" to the front.
However, the female comrade in front didn't even look back!
What's going on?
Relying on the swimming ring, Ye Manzhi was distracted for a while while holding the ring.
Not long after, I felt a small sampan approaching from behind.
"Laiya, you are very awesome. You have been following closely behind Director Wei!" Lin Qingmei dropped the oar and smiled at her.
Ye Manzhi, who was soaking in the middle of the river, felt as if he had met an old friend in a foreign land. He immediately asked happily, "Qingmei, you didn't participate in the river crossing?"
"I can't keep up physically, so I've been assigned to the logistics support team," Lin Qingmei handed her her water bottle. "Our boat is specifically for Director Wei. Even though Director Wei is a woman and swims slowly, she has great endurance and is a top contender for our Culture Bureau!"
Ye Manzhi pointed to the man in the red swimming cap in front of him and said, "Is that your director?"
"yes!"
Ye Manzhi: “…”
Following the wrong target.
She said that Xia Zhujun's physical strength is not as good as hers, so even if she performed exceptionally well today, she wouldn't be able to swim so far!
She took the kettle and took a sip of water, mentally weighing what to do next.
She had already reached the midpoint, and the distance forward and backward was almost the same. However, Qingmei's boat was right next to her, and she could get on the boat at any time if she wanted to go back.
A wave came and splashed water on her face. Ye Manyi quickly handed the kettle back.
Like a little turtle, it lay on the swimming ring to rest for a while, and then continued to move forward following Little Red Riding Hood.
"Your director is such a great swimmer!" Ye Manzhi gritted her teeth and said, "If I can successfully swim across today, Director Wei will have half the credit!"
She had never swum so far before. The feeling of being so far away from either side and the realization that she was just a drop in the ocean made her heart pound and she inexplicably felt a lot of fear.
If Qingmei and her colleagues had not been following nearby, and there were many other travelers not far away, she would probably be crying and blowing the whistle for help.
"Come on, ya, do you want to come up and rest for a while? Anyway, no one can see us except the two of us!"
"Forget it, bringing a swimming ring is good enough. If we go on the boat to rest for a while, that would be too outrageous!"
Ye Manzhi continued to flap his arms on the ridiculously wide river surface.
But her physical strength was really limited, and for the second half of the journey, she almost just went with the flow, carried away by the waves.
Sometimes he rested on the swimming ring, and sometimes he clung to Qingmei's rescue boat.
I even secretly ate a red bean paste bun to replenish my energy.
The director had already successfully crossed the river, but she was lagging behind and still had more than two hundred meters to swim!
By the time she dragged her heavy legs, supported her sore arms, and crawled to the shore like a limp noodle, the people waiting on the shore had already finished lunch and were preparing to pack up and go home.
She lay on the beach, looking up at the sky, surrounded by the applause and cheers of her comrades.
When she took the small red flag with the words "Crossing Binjiang" written on it, she had only two thoughts in her mind.
First, the red flag prepared for her by Chang Yue'e was not the right one. The regular flag had words on it. Fortunately, she successfully crossed the river.
Second, crossing the Binjiang River is something she can brag about for the rest of her life!
Every summer after that, whenever she comes to the river to swim, she can blow hard!
*
The March 8th Women's Swimming Team of the Ministry of Industry won a total of three small red flags in the "Cross-Binjiang Swimming Competition".
Pang Ting and Shen Lina were seeded players and were highly expected by everyone, so their successful crossing of the river was expected.
And it was a complete surprise that Ye Manyzhi was able to get back a small flag!
Facing everyone's praise, Ye Manzhi explained truthfully: "I brought a swimming ring. When I was swimming in the second half, the ring exerted great strength, and there was a rescue boat nearby, so I felt more secure."
The main reason she was able to persevere was that she followed the wrong target at the beginning and accidentally ended up behind a real swimming champion.
Another reason was that she had a swimming ring. Although it held her back in the first half, it gave her a lot of confidence in the second half.
Otherwise she would have boarded the ship halfway.
Xia Zhujun shrugged, "There are so many people swimming with floaties, and not everyone can make it! This time, three members of our women's team achieved excellent results, and the others also performed at their best. Everyone performed exceptionally well!"
Then, with a wave of her hand, she distributed a new swimsuit to each person on behalf of the department, as well as an enamel teacup as an award to veteran actors.
I won a lot of prizes from my last dance, and this time I got another unexpected reward from traveling on rivers, lakes and seas.
Ye Manzhi secretly made up his mind to participate more in the agency's extracurricular activities.
After her swimming results were personally stamped by her leader, she stopped being falsely modest and polite.
A red flag with words printed on it was hung at home, and a teacup with words printed on it was placed on the desk, displayed ostentatiously.
Comrade Wu Yuzhuo, who already knows a lot of words, brought the red flag his mother got to kindergarten and proudly showed it off to other children.
Ye Manzhi's heroic feat was praised by the mother and daughter for two full months, until Wu Zhengrong could no longer stand their exaggeration and framed the red flag and hung it on the wall. Only then did their passion finally show signs of fading.
"Xiao Ye, do you need to pick up your child from kindergarten tonight?" Xia Zhujun asked.
"Do you have any work arrangements?" Ye Manzhi said hurriedly, "You can call my wife to pick me up."
"Okay, I have a dinner with the leaders of the Department of Commerce and the Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative tonight to discuss shutting down their small factories. You can come with me."
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