Chapter 118
During the past few days working at the new company, Ye Manzhi has been feeling very good about herself.
When her family and friends asked her how her new job was, she always answered "good, good, good".
She really thinks it's good.
Although the Provincial Department of Industry is a large government agency, the work there is much easier than that of the sub-district office.
The most obvious point is that you don’t have to work overtime.
When she first started working at the street level, she worked overtime almost every day and even had to visit residents' homes on weekends.
On the Chemical and Light Industry Department side, Director Xia asked everyone to complete their work as much as possible during working hours, and to turn off the lights after get off work to save electricity.
Moreover, the canteen of the new unit has better food than those of Factory 656 and the provincial university.
The steamed bread in the cafeteria of Factory 656 is sore that it makes your throat hurt, but there are few cadres and employees in the Industrial Department, so the chef is relatively meticulous in his cooking, grinding the cornmeal twice more. Although they are both steamed bread, the taste is completely different.
Therefore, before her senior sister reminded her, Ye Manzhi had been in a state of being secretly delighted as if she was a poor person who had suddenly become rich.
At first, she thought that Shen Lina was just surprised that she was not assigned to a department that matched her major.
I never thought that they might have already taken a fancy to the vacancies for the three comprehensive subjects before I reported for duty.
Ye Manzhi thanked her senior sister for the reminder.
But she could only take things one step at a time as to what would happen next.
This job was assigned by the organization, and she didn't actively strive for it. If Shen Li Na holds a grudge against her for this, it would be unreasonable.
Besides, Shen Li Na didn't do anything to her. If she was trembling with fear and seeing enemies everywhere because of a guess, she would be worrying about nothing!
So, after returning to the office and taking a couple of sips of tea, Ye Manzhi stopped thinking about the fact that he had been passively occupying a position.
Compared to Shen Li Na, she was actually more concerned about what her senior sister revealed about the internal situation of the Chemical and Light Industry Department.
The Chemical and Light Industry Department has four departments: Comprehensive Department 1 is responsible for chemical industry, Comprehensive Department 2 is responsible for textiles, Comprehensive Department 4 is responsible for tobacco and alcohol, and Comprehensive Department 3 where Ye Manzhi is located is responsible for the rest of the light industrial sectors except textiles, tobacco and alcohol.
Although Zhao Guilin is young and educated, the resumes of other section chiefs are also not bad.
Section Chief Lu of Comprehensive Department 1 is also a college student.
It is not easy for Zhao Guilin to break out of the siege.
There are too many variables before the official appointment. She has seen examples of people turning against each other, and Liu Jinbao is one of them.
What's more, there is also "Inspector" He Ping in the Comprehensive Department 3.
Before the province downsized its staff, He Ping was a deputy section chief.
After staff reduction, other departments of the Industry Department were abolished. Only the Heavy Industry Department and the Chemical and Light Industry Department, two core departments with more business, retained their departments. However, each department only had one section chief. The original deputy section chiefs were all appointed as "inspectors" who regularly went to the grassroots level to understand the problems in the work and the ideological situation of cadres.
If Zhao Guilin makes progress, then the person most likely to take over the position of section chief will definitely be He Ping!
Ye Manzhi sat behind the desk, his eyes fixed on the materials in front of him, but his mind was full of random thoughts.
In the end, I came to only one conclusion - she is just a small shrimp now, so she should just work hard and stop thinking too much.
Secretary Bian Queqiao was right when he said that as long as you do your best to complete your work, your leaders will always see it.
Ye Manzhi put aside all distractions and focused on his work again.
Before she came, Zhao Guilin had only three people under him, which was not as well-staffed as when she was in the street office.
So everyone is responsible for a lot of work.
Her current division of labor was taken from the other three people.
He is temporarily responsible for the food industry, handling feedback from subordinate units and letters from the people, as well as other tasks assigned by the section chief.
Ye Manzhi felt that this "other tasks assigned by the section chief" was more spiritual. She observed silently for a few days and found that Zhao Guilin had assigned other tasks to Peng Jiayin several times.
"Xiao Ye, this month's People's Letters should have arrived. Go to the office and ask if there's anyone from our Comprehensive Three Department." Peng Jiayin reached out and tapped on her desk. "Do you need me to take you there once?"
"Haha, if you want to go out for some fresh air, come with me." Ye Manzhi asked, "Which comrade do you want to seek for trust?"
"I'm very busy today, so I don't have time to relax! Li Jian in the office is responsible for distributing letters from the people, so ask him for them!"
Ye Manzhi wrote down the name and went to the office on the third floor.
Some of the letters from the people were sent directly to the Department of Industry, while some were sent to the Provincial People's Committee, which was then forwarded by the General Office to the Department of Industry for processing.
The work of handling letters from the people in the Comprehensive Section Three was originally handled by the youngest Peng Jiayin. Now that Ye Manzhi, a younger follower, has arrived, this work has naturally been transferred to her hands.
When Ye Manzhi asked Li Jian if he had any letters from the public, Li Jian nodded, but pointed to the office next door and said, "Xiao Shen will be in charge of the public letters from now on. Just contact her directly next time."
Ye Manzhi agreed with a smile and looked at Shen Li Na, who was also a minion, "Have we sorted out the letters from the Chemical and Light Industry Department?"
"We'll have to wait a little longer," Shen Lina smiled apologetically at her, "I just took over this job, and some of the letters are written in rather illegible handwriting, and some are hard to tell whether they are from your light industry or heavy industry..."
Li Jian chimed in, "That's how it is when you first start writing. Xiaoye, there's a chair over there. Why don't you sit down and wait for a while?"
"It's okay. It takes time to adjust to a new job. Let Li Na take her time. I'll go back to the office to work and come back later." Ye Manzhi asked with a smile, "Is it only the letters from our Comprehensive Section 3 that haven't been sorted out, or are the letters from all the departments still sorted out?"
“There’s no points.”
Ye Manzhi nodded and chatted with the two of them for a while in a familiar manner. Not long after, the comrades from the Heavy Industry Department came to collect his trust.
Shen Li Na glanced at Ye Manzhi who was still standing nearby and said with a stiff upper lip, "The mail hasn't been sorted yet. Come back this afternoon."
"I'm afraid that won't work. I have to go to the factory down below with the section chief for research soon, and won't be back until the day after tomorrow." The man, a veteran in the office, asked with a smile, "Are you the new Xiao Shen? After you sort the mail, can you send it to the Second General Section of the Heavy Industry Department for me?"
Shen Lina readily agreed, “Don’t worry about the research, I’ll help you send it to the office after I finish sorting it.”
Ye Manzhi didn't mention asking her to help him deliver the letter.
She estimated the time and ran to the office again when there was still half an hour before the end of get off work.
No matter how many letters there are, they should have been finished by now.
It took nearly two hours, so it couldn’t be that Ana Shen couldn’t even sort out a few letters, right?
As a result, she ran to the office to ask, and found out that they really hadn't made a clear division.
In the afternoon, the department leader held a meeting with middle-level cadres, and she was called to set up the meeting room.
Ye Manzhi thought about it and felt that the other party's reasons were quite sufficient, so she said nothing.
After returning to the Third Comprehensive Section, she first asked Zhao Guilin, "Section Chief, is there a deadline for handling letters from the public? For example, how long do we have to give our opinion on how to handle them?"
"After receiving the letter, we will try to give a reply within two weeks. The General Office will report the proportion of problems solved by each unit every month, and the Industry Department will also conduct evaluations among its departments."
"Oh, then I'm afraid we'll have to wait a few more days this month. The comrade who distributes letters from the people in the office is also new and not very familiar with the job. I went there at noon, and she hadn't finished yet. I went there again just now, but she was delayed by other things. The new comrade seems to be very busy, so let's not rush her..."
"Just remember this."
Zhao Guilin thought these were trivial matters, so he waved his hand and let her go about her business.
Ye Manzhi just started a new job and has never dealt with the food industry. He has been reading information about the food industry these days.
She just put the matter of letters from the people aside.
I didn't go to the office to pick up the mail for two consecutive days.
Then, on the fourth day, near lunch break, Shen Lina came to the Comprehensive Section 3 with a few letters and handed them to Ye Manzhi in public.
She was about to ask why Ye Manzhi didn't go to the office to pick up the mail when other departments had already done so, but Ye Manzhi interrupted her and said, "This office initiative is fantastic! When I heard you were delivering mail to the Heavy Industry Department the other day, I thought it was just a one-off. I wanted you to help deliver mail to our Light Industry Department as well, but I was worried about causing trouble for the office, so I didn't dare ask. I didn't expect the comrades in the office to actually deliver mail door to door!"
Ye Manzhi pulled a chair and warmly invited her to sit down.
Then he said to Zhao Guilin, who looked over here after hearing the noise, "Section Chief, this is Shen Lina, the new comrade in the office. New people, new atmosphere. She took the initiative to deliver the people's letters to us!"
Zhao Guilin had long felt that the office's work was unreasonable. It was a waste of time and energy for comrades from other departments to run back and forth to the office. It would be more convenient to distribute the work to other departments after the office had processed it.
At this moment, his expression relaxed and he said, "This office reform is very good. It will save our business department a lot of time, reduce the number of wasted trips, and better improve work efficiency."
Shen Lina: “…”
She didn't reform.
Ye Manzhi only went to the office once on the first day and disappeared for two consecutive days.
She thought the other party had forgotten, so she took the initiative to go to her house, handed the letter to her in front of her leader, and asked her if she had forgotten such an important matter!
The unit was going to conduct an internal evaluation, and Ye Manzhi's delay for several days might affect the department's evaluation results.
Zhao Guilin's gaze moved between Ye Manzhi, who had a happy face, and Shen Lina, who had a stiff expression.
He narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Xiao Shen, your office's initiative is really great. It's taken the initiative to reduce the burden on our business department. I'll have to praise you to Director Xie later! Young people should be energetic and hardworking in this way when doing work!"
Shen Li Na hesitated and said, "No need..."
"Of course not! Good work should be reported to your leaders." Ye Manzhi took out a tea can and made her a cup of tea. "Lina, how about you try my green tea? If it tastes good, I'll make you a cup every month when you come to deliver your letter! Hey, let me tell you, this tea was brought from the south by my college classmate. It's said to be Mingqian tea or something. I don't understand, but it's quite expensive. I can't even bear to drink it myself..."
She went on and on about the benefits of green tea.
Then he arranged for someone to deliver her letters every month.
Shen Li Na was put on a high place at the moment. If she said that the office did not have this letter delivery business, she would be a little speechless for a while.
However, she only sent letters to two departments. If Section Chief Zhao really praised her in front of Director Xie, how would she explain it to the other departments?
Shen Lina took two sips of tea, then said she had to go back to work and hurried back to the office.
After thinking about it alone for an afternoon, he took the initiative to find Director Xie and proposed that starting from next month, the office should distribute letters from the people to various departments to save everyone's time and improve work efficiency.
She was responsible for distributing incoming letters, and naturally she was also responsible for running errands and delivering letters.
Director Xie doesn't care about such trivial matters, as long as she doesn't mind the trouble.
He happily agreed to her proposal and also gave the young comrade some encouragement.
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Ye Manzhi didn't care how Shen Lina would make amends for herself. After everyone left, she opened several letters and checked them.
There were five letters in total, all complaining about poor product quality.
For example, the number of matches is uneven, the sanding is not firm, and the match heads are too small and easily break.
There are also complaints that the standard flour of several flour mills in Binjiang does not meet the standards. The wheat is coarse and has a lot of gluten, making it unsuitable for making fried dough sticks and noodles.
There were also complaints about the soda being cloudy and having sediment.
Anyway, if you take it one by one, it's not a big deal. If someone like Ye Manzhi encounters this situation, he will at most say that he is unlucky, but will not write a letter to the provincial government to complain.
But since someone discovered the problem, they didn't mind the trouble and were willing to write a letter to the Ministry of Industry.
As a consumer, she also wants to help everyone solve these problems.
She first took these letters and consulted Peng Jiayin.
"Have you received similar complaints before? How did our department handle them?"
"Every month, it happens. As for the matchbox incident, it seems they've complained about it several times. I've seen two of them," Peng Jiayin said, taking out the letter and examining it. "The handwriting is exactly the same. It must be that old comrade!"
"Then you didn't handle it the previous times?"
Otherwise, why do people keep writing letters?
"Of course they've taken action! The industrial bureaus of several prefectures have sent people to the match factory for an inspection, and they've even asked for more inspectors to be posted at the warehouse," Peng Jiayin whispered. "Even if there are real improvements, it won't happen overnight. The factory still has to sell the matches it's already producing. Plus, those factories have their own policies and countermeasures. Every time they hear about inspections and evaluations from higher-ups, they pull out their best-quality products. Then, when we come to check, they're all qualified."
"Then how do we respond to this letter from the people?" Ye Manyi asked.
"The previous handling opinions are all archived," Peng Jiayin handed her a notebook. "You can refer to the responses here."
Ye Manzhi took it and flipped through it.
Most light industrial products are closely related to people's lives and are consumed in large quantities. Judging from the number of previous complaints, the defective rate of certain foods and daily necessities on the market is extremely high.
Ye Manzhi felt that treating the symptoms without addressing the root cause was completely ineffective. If the Department of Industry did not take drastic measures, it would have to deal with a large number of letters from the public every month.
She put a few letters aside for the time being, intending to change her mindset and think of other solutions.
If there is still no proper solution by the deadline, we can only follow what Peng Jiayin said and hand the problem over to the special zone and the Municipal Industrial Bureau for resolution.
After get off work at five o'clock, Ye Manzhi walked out of the office on time and hurried back to the military industrial compound to pick up her little girl Piaoliang from school.
Little Wu Yuzhuo has officially started attending kindergarten.
Ye Manzhi originally planned to send her to the government kindergarten, but Wu Zhengrong felt that the kindergarten was too far away and the task of picking her up and dropping her off would fall on her shoulders alone.
Anyway, children just play in kindergarten, and their parents and great-grandfather will teach them knowledge. It is more convenient to go to kindergarten near home, and they can also go to school with taxis and balls.
Ye Manzhi thought this was a good idea, at least her fourth brother could pick up and drop off her little beauty.
However, her child has a strong personality, and if her parents don't pick her up from kindergarten, she will go home and pout.
Wu Zhengrong went to Beijing on a business trip the day before yesterday, and the arduous task of picking up the child from school was transferred to Ye Manzhi.
She arrived at the kindergarten on time and waited at the door of the small class for the aunt to bring the child out.
As a result, I brought out two kids today.
Ye Manzhi tapped her nephew on the forehead and said, "Qiqiu, why are you coming to the kindergarten class instead of staying in your own class?"
Taxi and Qiqiu have been in kindergarten for one year and are being promoted to the middle class this year.
Qiqiu said eloquently: "I will play in the small class from now on and accompany my sister."
Ye Manzhi said with a smile: "Why did you repeat a grade right after entering kindergarten?"
He has already been promoted to the middle class, but he insists on being demoted back to the small class.
Although Wu Yuzhuo was clever, he didn't know how to express himself tactfully, and he exposed Qiqiu right in front of him.
"If you don't let him eat Brother Cheche's cookies, he won't be in the same class with Brother Cheche anymore."
Ye Manzhi asked with a smile: "Then did you give it to him?"
A big reason why the kid in the taxi was so fat was that he was very protective of his food.
He was able to make all the snacks that Wong Tai Sin brought him by himself.
Xiao Piaoliang, who also often eats special meals, does not have the worry of obesity. This child eats less and likes to share.
Most of the pastries that her great-grandfather bought for her were eaten by her own mother.
"I'll give it to Brother Qiuqiu," little Wu Yuzhuo jumped up and down while holding her mother's hand, "so that Brother Qiuqiu can keep me company!"
“…”
Ye Manzhi didn't take the child's childish words to heart.
But when she went to pick up her child from kindergarten for three consecutive days, she found Qiqiu playing in the classroom of the small class.
On the fourth day, I went straight into the small class classroom early in the morning.
When Ye Manzhi went to work, she kept thinking that if it really didn't work out, she could let her daughter Wu Yuzhuo work the middle shift.
If she wasn't sent to the middle class, she might really have the ability to make her brother Qiuqiu go to the small class twice!
Ye Manzhi was thinking about her children. As soon as she entered the office, she heard Zhao Guilin ask, "Who wrote the report about the failure to allocate materials for light industry infrastructure construction according to plan?"
He Ping said: "I was originally in charge. After Xiaoye came, I passed the report to Xiaoye."
He said this as if he had already handed the written report to Ye Manyi.
In fact, Ye Manzhi only received some letters from some units and did not see any reports at all.
She wrote the report herself and had just started working on it.
Meeting the section chief's gaze, Ye Manzhi smiled and said, "I have the feedback from the lower-level units. The report on undisbursed construction materials is indeed with me, but I've only just written the beginning."
"Just writing a beginning won't do," Zhao Guilin frowned. "There's a lot of dissatisfaction from below right now. The materials that should have been allocated haven't been, and the construction progress of the ceramics and alcohol factories has been severely delayed. We need to submit a report as soon as possible and coordinate with the Infrastructure Committee."
"Previous data was too vague. Some said only half of the steel had been allocated, and only one-third of the lumber and cement. But how much is half? How much is one-third? How many tons should have been allocated according to the plan? What were the differences between the cities and prefectures? There were no specific figures. I feel that reports without data support are not rigorous, so I have been contacting the industrial bureaus of several prefectures these days, asking them to provide real data."
"Have you got the data?" Zhao Guilin asked.
"I got it."
"Then give me the half-written report first. Director Qin is going to the Provincial Infrastructure Commission to seek justice!"
Ye Manzhi: “…”
The so-called seeking justice means going to someone’s house to have a quarrel, right?
The Provincial Capital Construction Committee not only issues quarterly construction plans but also has to allocate construction materials to various units.
Now two quarters have passed, and more than half of the materials are gone.
As the competent authority, the Department of Industry should indeed send someone to seek an explanation.
Ye Manzhi did not dare to delay the leader's quarrel, so he quickly found a piece of paper with complete data and handed it to Section Chief Zhao.
Zhao Guilin took the report and left. Ye Manzhi could faintly hear him talking loudly in the director's office next door.
Occasionally, Deputy Director Qin's cursing voice could be heard.
Half an hour later, Zhao Guilin returned to Comprehensive Section 3, looked around the office, and asked, "Who's free? Let's go to the Provincial Infrastructure Commission with Director Qin later."
After he finished speaking, the air seemed to be frozen and no one answered for a while.
Deputy Director Qin is the one who is not in good health and will be retiring in two or three years.
This director has a very hot temper and likes to use foul language when he gets emotional. After scolding people, he often ends up in the hospital, which perfectly proves the saying that anger can damage the liver.
Most people in the Industry Department thought that he might not even reach retirement age and would have to apply for medical retirement.
In this situation, no one wanted to go out with him to have a quarrel.
If he went in with his head held high and started a quarrel, and ended up in the hospital with his head held high, they couldn't afford the responsibility.
When the office was silent, Ye Manzhi, who was always willing to share the worries of his leader, raised his hand resolutely.
"Section Chief, can I go with Director Qin? I've done mediation work in the streets before, and I've seen all sorts of weird things. If reason doesn't work, I'm pretty good at arguing!"
Everyone: “…”
This is the first time I have seen such a fresh and unconventional way of self-recommendation.
Zhao Guilin narrowed his eyes and laughed: "Okay, okay, we need comrades like Xiaoye who are brave enough to charge into battle at critical moments!"
But he felt that it was not safe to let a young female comrade come forward. What if Director Qin was really upset and she couldn't handle it alone.
Then he pointed to the younger Wang Qin: "Wang'er, you should also accompany our Director Qin!"
Wang Qin could only nod helplessly and followed the old man and the young man out with high morale.
Ye Manzhi showed great respect for the old director.
On the way, he said that he was good at reasoning and arguing, and they could draw up a quarrel plan on the way.
After arriving at the place, there was no need for the old director to speak. She, the young woman, took the lead first. When she couldn't argue anymore, the director would step in.
Director Qin nodded with satisfaction. He felt that if he wanted to reason with someone in person, he would need Comrade Xiao Ye's momentum.
I explained the battle plan to her in this way.
Wang Qin followed behind him without interrupting.
The cadres of the Chemical and Light Industry Department were generally respectful to Deputy Director Qin, but everyone knew that he was about to arrive at his destination, so there was no need to curry favor with him.
Wang Qin was not responsible for the infrastructure work, so this visit to seek an explanation had nothing to do with him.
Wang Qin treated himself as a fire extinguisher. When Director Qin was arguing and his face was red, he would say a few words to comfort him and calm him down. He didn't intend to interfere in other matters.
The three of them came to the Provincial Infrastructure Committee together. After being invited into the meeting room, Ye Manzhi took out a small bag of tea that she carried with her, picked up the thermos and made a cup of tea for Director Qin.
He emphasized again, "Director Qin, anger is harmful to your health. Please don't take action for a while! I already have a general understanding of the situation. Let me play my part first!"
Director Qin was amused by her. He took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll let you talk first."
Wang Qin couldn't help but look sideways when he saw this, thinking that the newcomer Xiao Ye was too attentive and good at flattering the leader.
But what’s the point of her flattering a leader who is about to arrive at his station?
Ye Manzhi ignored the looks from the people around him.
Others just don't understand her!
In the entire Chemical and Light Industry Department, and even in the entire Industry Department, she is definitely the person who most hopes for Deputy Director Qin's good health!
On the one hand, she respects the elderly. On the other hand, if Director Qin retires early due to illness before reaching the age limit, she will not be able to hold the position of Chief of Comprehensive Section 3 for another five or six years.
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