Chapter 235
In front of the city leaders, Ye Manzhi spoke with particular respect and courtesy.
This is how she expressed her stance to her leader:
The "Food Industrial Park" is the best resettlement plan the Light Industry Bureau can currently offer. If the city disagrees, then...
According to normal people's thinking, this might be followed by "There's nothing I can do about it."
After all, the Light Industry Bureau has submitted four proposals to the city, and all four were rejected.
Even a clay figure can have some temper, let alone a mortal like her.
But the cultivation of leaves all over the branches seems to be particularly good.
She told the leaders, "If the city disagrees, that's fine. The Light Industry Bureau will definitely follow their instructions and work hard to find other solutions to help the city leaders solve the problem..."
However, before she could finish her words, she heard Yu Gongpu across from her suddenly yell, startling everyone.
Peng Jingyun really disliked her behavior and slammed the table, saying, "You are a leading cadre after all. How can you make such a fuss in front of the people?"
Yu Gongpu ignored his superiors' criticism and shouted at Ye Manzhi, "Director Ye, this matter can't be delayed any longer! It took you over a month to come up with the food industrial park plan. If you come up with other solutions, won't it take several more months? I can wait, but the workers can't!"
Upon hearing this, several worker representatives responded, "Yeah, how much longer do we have to wait before we can start work? We're all waiting to buy rice!"
Ye Manzhi thought Director Yu's "Ao" was quite insightful. She suppressed her laughter and said good-naturedly, "Comrades, please be patient. The city will definitely find a solution as soon as possible. Director Yu, you and the worker representatives are here today, so I'd like to ask everyone's opinion. If we were to move everyone to the suburbs to work and live, would the workers accept it?"
When Yu Gongpu heard about the plan for the food industrial park, he immediately discussed it with the workers.
Of course, no one wants to leave the city, but the reality is that you need a job before you can live.
There’s no point living in the city center if you can’t make money.
Therefore, 60% of employees are willing to work and live in the suburbs, and the rest can commute between the city and the suburbs every day.
Yu Gongpu nodded on behalf of the Lihua factory workers, "We can accept that. Our only request is to resume work as soon as possible."
Ye Manzhi turned to the two leaders and said, "The latest plan put forward by the Light Industry Bureau is to establish a 'Food Industrial Park'. The county where the park is located will fund the construction of new factory buildings for the Lihua factory to solve the housing problem for the employees."
"Also, we'll relocate a food factory that's in urgent need of expansion to the Food Industrial Park, and use the existing factory building as a school for the city's political night school..."
She gave a detailed introduction to Tonglan County's replacement plan.
Hearing the name of "Political Night School", Director Li finally opened the application and quickly read it.
The Political Night School has always wanted to move to the city, but there is no vacant space in the city center. If it wants to hold classes in the city, it can only borrow classrooms from primary and secondary schools.
Although the "Political Night School" is called a night school, it actually also has full-time training classes during the day. It is obviously inappropriate to share the school building with primary and secondary schools.
After looking through it carefully, he saw the final investment amount - 1 million.
"Aren't the construction materials provided by the Municipal Second Construction Company? Why do we need another 1 million?"
Ye Manzhi and Yu Gongpu rolled their eyes in their hearts almost at the same time.
Director Li is so stingy!
To build such a large industrial park, they don’t even want to spend 1 million!
Ye Manzhi tried to control his expression and said, "I went to the provincial industrial conference a while ago and told the leaders of the provincial bureau about the idea of a 'food industrial park'. The provincial leaders are quite supportive of this idea and may use our park as a provincial pilot project."
Seeing Director Li's expression grow more serious, she continued, "The planning for this 'food industrial park' complies with the requirements of the 1972 'Several Opinions on Strengthening Capital Construction Management' issued by the State Planning Commission, the State Construction Commission, and the Ministry of Finance. Binjiang is a large to medium-sized city, and moving old factories out of the city and concentrating them in the industrial park is a completely new experiment. Perhaps we can submit a report to the State Construction Commission and apply to be selected as a pilot project."
This is actually no longer the responsibility of the Light Industry Bureau.
However, in order to successfully establish the project, Ye Manzhi specially contacted the Municipal Planning Department and carefully studied the urban planning policies of recent years.
"If this really becomes a pilot project for the National Construction Commission or the provincial government, it wouldn't be realistic if there were only two food factories. This is an industrial park, after all, so there should be at least three factories, right? So, in addition to the Lihua factory and the replaced food factory, it would be best if the city could fund the expansion and relocation of another food factory."
After hearing her introduction, Yu Gongpu exclaimed, "Using the funds from building one factory to complete the expansion of three factories will not only free up land in the city center, but also create a new food industrial park, turning it into a pilot project for both the national and provincial governments. This is such a great thing! Director Li, Director Peng, why doesn't the city agree?"
Ye Manzhi gave her a thumbs up in her heart.
Director Yu is such a wonderful person.
Ye Manzhi was rather cautious in this regard and did not reveal a single word to the other party.
In fact, the two of them never discussed anything.
But Yu Gongpu always manages to play supporting role at the right time.
There must be some reason why he could become the head of Lever Factory.
The ability to judge the situation alone is quite extraordinary.
Director Li accepted the fifth application and said he would hold a meeting to discuss it.
This time it really needs to be discussed at the meeting, but Yu Gongpu doesn't believe it.
She felt that the food industrial park was the only chance to rebuild the Lihua factory, so after that day, she reported to the Municipal Revolutionary Committee on time every day.
The guard wouldn't let her in, so she waited at the door. When she saw her leader coming to work, she ran over to show her presence and asked him how the discussion went.
Her skill in pestering others is unique among scorpion dads, not only in the whole city, but also in the whole province.
The city leaders were fed up with her, but there was nothing they could do about her.
Yu Gongpu was uneducated and started working to support his family at the age of nine. He belonged to the exploited and oppressed proletariat and had a fairly good family background.
She was willing to work hard and always followed the highest instructions. No one could do anything to her over the years.
…
The Light Industry Bureau's application had many advantages, and coupled with the annoying Yu Gongpu, the city made a decision quickly.
In early July, Ye Manzhi received a notice that the "Food Industrial Park" project could be officially launched.
The Municipal Revolutionary Committee established a preparatory leading group.
Peng Jingyun served as the team leader, and Ye Manzhi, director of the Light Industry Bureau, Chen Xun, director of the Municipal Urban Planning Department, and Qian Qingsong, director of the Tonglan County Revolutionary Committee, served as deputy team leaders.
There were some names of team members at the end, but Ye Manzhi just glanced at them briefly.
She is more concerned about the investment situation in the city.
The application submitted by the bureau stated 1 million yuan, but the city ultimately only agreed to allocate 600,000 yuan!
The budget of 600,000 is really enough and can just cover the construction and relocation costs of a factory.
But she couldn't fault it.
In recent years, the city has invested very little in fixed assets.
In the light industry system, only 120 million yuan has been invested in the past decade, an average of 12 million yuan per year.
12 million sounds like a lot, but the Binjiang Chemical Plant that embarrassed the Binjiang leaders back then also invested 30 million.
The two old production lines imported from Japan by Shuguang Factory are worth 6.5 million RMB!
What can you do with more than 10 million yuan a year?
Therefore, it was considered generous of the city to spare no expense to come up with 600,000 yuan to expand the food factory.
Ye Manzhi suspected that the 600,000 yuan was given as a favor to the two pilot projects.
In any case, the official approval of the "Food Industrial Park" project is a great event worthy of loud drums and gongs and grand celebrations.
Ye Manzhi’s first shot after taking office has been successfully fired, and those who want to watch her make a fuss can shut up now!
Equally happy with her were the cadres of Tonglan County and the employees of Lihua Factory.
Tonglan County's ability to win this major project was beyond everyone's expectations, and even the county's cadres were a little confused.
After being ranked last in the city's industrial sector for more than 20 years, they are a little uncomfortable with suddenly getting such a lucrative job!
Several other counties that were not selected heard from somewhere that Tonglan County was Ye Manzhi's hometown, and they all thought that Ye Manzhi gave special care to his hometown.
But Ye Manzhi knew that it was not the case at all.
The city is anxious to resolve the problem of the Lihua factory, but other counties are procrastinating and have been slow to come up with solutions. How can she have the time to wait for them?
Tonglan County and Anyang County both came up with plans at the first opportunity, and each has its own advantages.
But Tonglan County’s plan also involves the political night school where Director Li is the principal.
Isn’t it just a coincidence that I was chosen?
"Director Ye, our Lihua factory will officially resume work next Monday," Yu Gongpu said enthusiastically, "and the employees would like to invite you to attend the resumption ceremony."
Ye Manzhi asked in surprise: "Where are you resuming work? The food industrial park project has just been approved, and the factory building has not yet started!"
"I've been to Tonglan County several times and have discussed with the county leaders that we can borrow a warehouse from their county department store as a factory and have some of our employees move in to start production. The new factory will take at least half a year to be built, and the employees can't wait any longer!"
"Where did the production equipment come from?" Ye Manyi asked.
"Hey, I borrowed it from another factory. I'll start producing steamed buns and pastries first and save up some money. I think I'll be able to buy malted milk equipment next year."
Yu Gongpu doesn’t have a good reputation among the city leaders, but he has a good relationship with other food factories.
The equipment for producing steamed buns and pastries is not expensive, so she borrowed some from other factories first.
There was still money in the Lihua factory's account. When she rebuilt the factory, she was reluctant to spend a penny. She either asked workers to carry waste bricks or wait for aid from the city.
The city can build factories for them, but it won’t spend money on equipment.
Therefore, even if she had to be shameless and make a scene in the city, she didn't dare touch the money in the company account.
Now that the Lihua factory has resumed production, I can make some money in half a year. Combined with the tens of thousands of yuan already in the account, I can purchase malted milk equipment next year!
After listening to her explanation, Ye Manzhi silently sighed that Director Yu had a chance of success.
She shook his hand and said, "It's absolutely great news that the Lihua factory can resume operations! I will definitely attend the resumption ceremony on time. Director Yu, you should also go to the Municipal Revolutionary Committee and invite a few city leaders."
"Forget it, the city leaders are all busy." Yu Gongpu said with a smile, "We'll invite the leaders of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee when we move into the new factory."
She knows her own limitations and the city leaders get annoyed when they see her.
Now that the reconstruction of the Lihua factory has been finalized, she is too lazy to make trouble in front of the city leaders.
If she didn't think Ye Manzhi was a person who really wanted to get things done, she wouldn't even want to invite Ye Manzhi!
*
After the project was approved, the leaders of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee went to the Provincial Party Committee to make a report and also prepared to apply for the "Food Industrial Park" to be a provincial pilot project.
Anyone can see that this project has potential.
As long as the factory building is built and the factory moves in, it will be a real achievement.
Therefore, the four deputy directors of the Light Industry Bureau all tactfully expressed to Ye Manzhi their willingness to share the burden with her.
This project also includes the relocation of two food factories, mobilizing employees, resolving conflicts between factories, and coordinating funds, all of which require someone to be responsible.
This kind of work wouldn't require the director to do it himself, right?
Ye Manzhi really wanted to form a team from the bureau to take charge of this work. She did not hesitate for too long and quickly handed over the specific implementation work of the "Food Industrial Park" to Song Hongjun.
Director Song had assisted her in applying for the project from the city from beginning to end. Now that it was time to take responsibility, how could she leave him behind?
Besides, Zhang Baineng and Lan Hai are okay. They occasionally care about the progress of the project and have expressed their willingness to help.
He Bineng not only didn't care about it, but also hid away in companies to conduct research all day long, as if he was afraid that others would ask him for help.
No matter how generous Ye Manzhi is, he would never give this project to him!
However, in keeping with the principle of unity among comrades, Ye Manzhi acted nonchalant and said, "There are only three or five food factories in the food industrial zone. In the short term, it will have little impact on the city's light industrial output value. Let's hand this task over to Director Song first. The rest of us comrades still have to focus on increasing output value. Hey, the year-end summary will be written in a few months, and it's not going to be easy!"
Lan Hai agreed and said, "We've been investigating the companies over the past two months and have discovered quite a few problems. The bureau really needs to take a closer look at the companies."
This is the truth. The directors have all personally conducted research at the grassroots level. Although the industries are different, the problems they encounter are similar.
Thinking of the provincial industrial competition at the end of the year, the food industrial park seems not so important anymore.
After Ye Manzhi said that, she also started to worry.
The "food industrial zone" can only be regarded as an entrance test, proving that she, as the director, has some ability.
The provincial industrial ranking at the end of the year is the real test!
She put the research report compiled by the office into her bag and prepared to go home to study it.
As a result, as soon as I entered the house, I saw Chang Yue'e and Youyan busy in the kitchen.
"Mom, when did you come?"
"I just got here," Chang Yue'e said, carrying the last plate to the table. "Call Zhengrong and ask him to come back for dinner."
"No need to call. He led a team to the Binjiang Second Machinery Plant. It seems he's assisting with some project. He won't be back for ten days or half a month."
Chang Yue'e asked, "Even though I work in this city, I can't come back?"
"Well, it's confidentiality and closed management." Ye Manzhi washed his hands and went to the table. "Let's not wait for him."
Institute 1062 cooperates with several large factories in the city, but Wu Zhengrong always leads the team to Binjiang No. 2 Machinery Factory.
Ye Manzhi once complained to his face that he was narrow-minded and there was no need for him to always go to the Second Machine Factory to cause trouble for Zhou Mu.
Besides, Zhou Mu is already married, and his wife is a good match for him. They should have let go of Zhou Mu long ago.
Wu Zhengrong was quite obedient and indeed did not go in the past few years. However, since he heard last year that Zhou Mu was getting a divorce from his wife, Wu picked up his old habit of leading the team himself.
Every time there was cooperation with the Second Machine Factory, he would personally take action.
Ye Manzhi suspected that he was there for fun.
"Mom, how come you have time to cook for me today? What's going on?"
"It's not me who's in trouble, it's your dad who's in trouble."
"Then why doesn't he come himself?"
"He's just embarrassed," Chang Yue'e said, "Your dad wants to get a TV ticket!"
"Didn't my grandpa say buying a TV would be a waste of money?" Wu Yuzhuo held the bowl and imitated her grandfather's words perfectly. "Huh, a TV costs hundreds of yuan. What kind of family can afford it? I need a ticket for such an expensive thing. Is there something wrong with me? I'm being taken advantage of!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Manzhi and Chang Yue'e both laughed.
Chang Yue'e grumbled, "That old man won't move even if I pull him along, he's just pushing me backwards!"
When my daughter was the head of Shuguang Factory, she gave them a TV ticket so that they could buy a TV at home and have some entertainment after retirement.
But Old Ye was reluctant to spend the more than 400 yuan, and he was also worried that the TV would attract everyone in the building to his house.
So, he sneered at the TV ticket and resolutely returned it to his daughter, saying he would not buy it no matter what.
If he wanted to watch TV, he would walk a few more steps to the house of Old Liu in the next unit, who had bought a TV.
However, after the food industrial park was established in Tonglan County, the commune issued a letter of introduction to the old lady, allowing her to stay in the city for two more months and return after the summer.
Summer in the city is much hotter than summer in the countryside. After the couple took the old lady out for sightseeing for half a month, they were worried that the little old lady would get heatstroke, so they dared not go out every day.
Old Ye wanted to let his mother, who was over 90 years old, enjoy a better life, so he changed his stingy nature and went to the department store to buy a Shuguang brand floor-standing oscillating fan for more than 300 yuan.
I also want to buy a TV at home so that his mother can watch the TV programs that city people watch.
However, when I got to the department store, I remembered that this thing required a ticket!
Old Ye still remembers his bold words and feels embarrassed to come to see his daughter. He has been trying to find someone to buy TV and plane tickets recently.
"Your father is becoming more and more concerned with prestige as he gets older," Chang Yue'e said. "He doesn't know I'm here to ask you for TV tickets. Anyway, think of a way. Buy a TV as soon as possible so your grandma can enjoy it sooner."
"Hahaha, okay."
Ye Manzhi agreed immediately, but televisions were a very scarce commodity. Even if the Shuguang factory produced 300,000 televisions a year, the local inventory in Binjiang was still not enough to sell.
She hasn't even mentioned buying a TV for her own family.
Of course, the main reason was that she didn't want to buy a black and white TV. When color TVs could be mass-produced, she wanted to buy a color TV in one go.
*
Ye Manzhi asked Chang Yue'e to wait for a few days as the bureau was busy making a research summary recently.
At the team meeting of the new week, she mentioned the company's survey results over the past two months.
"Let's put other issues aside for now, but I think the issue of fixed asset investment should attract the attention of our comrades." Ye Manzhi asked Director Xue of the office to distribute the research summary to everyone.
"In the past decade, fixed asset investment in light industry has totaled 120 million yuan, many of which are in emerging industries, such as investments in watch, camera, photosensitive materials, synthetic detergents, citric acid, and so on."
Zhang Baineng said: "120 million yuan is not much to invest in ten years."
And several million of them are printed works and quotations.
Ye Manzhi nodded and said, "Yes, the investment is small, and the returns are poor. After the watch and camera projects were completed, they still haven't reached 30% of their designed capacity. The cellulose acetate and citric acid projects are even more tedious to build. The construction period was extremely long. One took six years, and the other four, and they still haven't officially started production. I looked up data from ten years ago. In 1965, the fixed asset formation rate was 85%, but now it's only 60%."
The three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight. If investment is not increased, the output value of Binjiang's light industry is unlikely to make a qualitative leap in the short term.
But the city is eager to see significant results this year.
Ye Manzhi thought about it and felt that he should think of a solution for these large projects that have not yet been put into production.
Let these projects be transformed as quickly as possible.
"Since the city has invested money, we must see results. Projects that haven't been put into production for four or five years must have results this year!" Ye Manzhi proposed. "From today, we will fight for 100 days to complete the project construction in one go and fire the first shot!"
Deputy Directors: “…”
How come the war will last 100 days?
Can a project that has not been completed for four or five years be completed within three months?
It's obvious that Director Ye's slogan-shouting style is a habit he brought from the factory.
Everything we do must be quantified. It’s either a month-long battle or a 50-day struggle.
That's not how it works in government offices!
Song Hongjun, also a former corporate executive, was the first to raise his hand in agreement. "Yes, that's the way to go! I've always been fed up with projects that drag on! A year or two might be understandable, but when they can't be completed in five or six, what's going on?"
"Well," Ye Manzhi said, "let's divide the work among ourselves, each taking charge of a project. We'll have 100 days to complete it, and then we'll see if we can get this big project off the ground!"
Ye Manzhi assigned tasks to five people. Each person had a project. Whoever failed to complete the task would be embarrassed in the whole unit!
Two powerful people and Lan Hai: "..."
This top leader came from a business background and is full of energy every day.
They also had to adapt to the work pace of the boss.
After assigning the tasks, Ye Manzhi continued, "Besides fixed asset investment, there's another pressing issue. When we went to survey the companies, we investigated the percentages of junior, intermediate, and senior workers in each unit. I've had the office consolidate all the data over the past two days, and the situation isn't optimistic!"
"There are approximately 130,000 rated skilled workers in the city. Entry-level workers, or those at levels one, two, and three, account for 74.8%, while intermediate workers at levels four, five, and six account for 24.9%. And there are only 402 senior workers at levels seven and eight, or 0.3%!"
"Fifteen years ago, in 1960, there were only 26,855 workers involved in the rating process, but there were 851 workers of the seventh and eighth grades, accounting for about 3%, which is ten times the number today!"
He Bi Neng said: "There's nothing we can do about it. Old workers are retiring, and a large number of young workers are entering the factory. This ratio is bound to decrease."
There was one more thing he didn't say.
Now almost all factories have stopped technical training. Young workers cannot learn skills, so their technical grades naturally cannot be improved.
"If this continues, in three to five years, when all the veteran workers have retired, there will be fewer and fewer senior workers."
Shuguang Factory has a workers' university and regularly conducts technical training for new employees. As a result, the talent gap problem has been alleviated significantly in recent years.
Ye Manzhi knew that the situation in other factories was not good, but he did not expect it to be this bad.
The Light Industry Bureau can try to quickly increase the output value of light industry by converting fixed asset investment to make this year's data look better, but from a long-term perspective, technical talents are the foundation of enterprise development.
The reason why Shuguang Factory has been able to achieve its current development and no matter what decisions she makes, the factory can keep up with her is because it has a large number of highly educated and highly skilled talents!
Ye Manzhi formulated a technical talent training plan at this meeting.
…
A week later, in the military industrial compound, Ye Shouxin was suddenly called by a group of old workers to attend a meeting in the compound.
"We're all retired, why are we still holding a meeting?" Old Ye strolled downstairs. "It's so formal."
"Hey, this is a good thing!"
"Old Chen, if you have any good news, tell me now! I have to go back and cook!"
"What's the point of sitting around the stove all day after retirement?" Old Master Chen said mysteriously, "I heard the city is recruiting consultants from retired seventh- and eighth-level workers!"
"What do you mean? How much is the salary?" Ye Shouxin asked with his hands behind his back. "I'm an eighth-level worker, so the salary should be at least 70 or 80 yuan!"
"If we don't pay, being a consultant isn't like being a worker," said Old Master Chen. "Besides, we all have pensions, so how can we possibly pay? Our company gives us food and meat coupons every month as a subsidy! As long as we're officially hired as consultants, we'll even get a TV ticket!"
Ye Shouxin, who had been lacking interest at first, suddenly perked up: "What? TV and plane tickets?"
Being a consultant can actually earn you TV tickets!!!
Isn't this tailor-made for him?
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