Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 439

"Dare to ask where the road is, the road is under your feet—"

The theme song of the TV series Journey to the West is playing from the loudspeaker on the telegraph pole.

This song is played in the factory of Qianyuanzheng for more than ten hours a day. Perhaps it is to use this inspiring song to lift the spirits of more than 3000 employees in the factory.

It is December now, and the factory in the valley of Guizhou Province is cold and gloomy. There is no heating equipment in the house, and people are shivering from the cold.

Although there are not many production tasks in the factory now, the workers still go to work and hang out in the factory and workshop.

A group of retired old people lit a fire with firewood in an open space in the factory area. Twenty or thirty old people gathered around the fire and chatted while enjoying the fire.

Listening to these old people speaking with a southern accent and a northern accent, there are Northeast accents, Sichuan accents, Hubei accents and Guizhou accents.

This situation is not surprising in the southwest region. In the 60s, all parts of the country concentrated their efforts to build factories in the valleys of the southwest to prepare for possible future wars.

Back then, Wang Weidong's father, Wang Haifu, was also sent to the Southwest for several years, but later he was transferred back to the Xiangyang Chemical Plant.

The old people are discussing an exciting news in full swing.

It is said that this time the state will allocate [-] million yuan to Qian Yuanzheng's factory to pay wages in arrears and organize production!
"Ge Laozi, I said that the country will not ignore us!" said an old man.

"It's great this time. The Chinese New Year is less than two months away. If we pay all the wages and pensions that are in arrears for five months, everyone will have a good New Year." Another old man said excitedly.

The other old men also grinned happily.

In fact, the first version of this news began to spread a month ago, but the gossip of the first version said that the state allocated 100 million to solve the wage problem of workers. After it was circulated for a month, the state allocated funds The total has become [-] million!

In fact, such things often happened in various poorly managed factories in the 90s.

After one gossip was proven to be false, another gossip soon began to spread in the factory.

Every time, almost all the workers are looking forward to it with eager anticipation. If everyone can calm down and think about it carefully, they will feel that the gossip is unreliable, but now almost everyone would rather believe such news. To comfort or to deceive yourself.

The wages in the factory have not been raised for several years, and the wages have been suppressed intermittently for two years, and now they are five months in arrears.

Every worker and retired worker is owed wages and pensions of more than 1000.

This amount of money is not worth mentioning to the rich, but it is life-saving money for these workers, not a penny less!
The factory secretary Wang Keling sat in his office and heard the secretary's report. He decided to turn a blind eye to this kind of gossip as he did several times before, and pretended not to hear it.

It would be bad if the factory specially issued a notice to clarify that this matter is false information for such a matter. It would be like pouring a pot of cold water on a red-hot stove, and the stove would burst.

Of course, it cannot be said that this gossip is completely false, because now the factory director, Fan Jingyi, has rushed to the capital to ask for help from the Ministry, and won a sum of money to pay all the workers in the factory a year ago.

When Fan Jingyi, the factory director, walked into Vice Minister Jiao's office, Vice Minister Jiao's face was very ugly.

He said helplessly to Fan Jingyi: "Old Fan, you have come to me for alms again. Tell me yourself, how many times have you been here this year? Do you think I am here to print money? A listed company of yours is listed How did it become like this in less than two years?"

"Vice Minister Jiao, I have been the manager of this factory for less than a year. I don't know anything about the past. It was a mess when I took over! If you want to find out what exactly the 5000 million raised from the listing financing was spent on? You should not look for me. But I kneel down to you now, and you have to give me money so that more than 3000 workers in the factory can pass this Spring Festival.” Fan Jingyi said.

"You don't have to cry with us all the time! You are a listed company now, so you can raise money." Deputy Minister Jiao said.

Hearing Vice Minister Jiao say this, Fan Jingyi knew that Vice Minister Jiao did not understand the regulations on financing in China's stock market.

Now that the factory has been listed for less than two years, it is impossible to conduct the second financing.Moreover, the current performance of the factory does not allow financing.

"According to the regulations of the stock exchange, there is still one year before the second financing, and we can't afford to wait." Fan Jingyi said.

"Can't we find another bank to get a loan?" Vice Minister Jiao asked.

Hearing Vice Minister Jiao's words, Fan Jingyi said with a wry smile: "If I go to the presidents of those banks, they will definitely avoid me like a plague god! They have to burn incense every day, I hope I am more excited than I am to see the economic benefits of our factory improve! Because only in this way can we repay the more than 1 million loans owed to them! It is absolutely impossible to borrow money from them now, because they also know that it is meat buns Beat the dog and never come back!"

"Your difficulties are known to the Ministry, but there is nothing we can do. We really have no money. Even if I squeeze out a sum of money to give you, other companies below will come to me as soon as they hear the news. Where are you now? Is it not difficult for a company? And I gave you the money, can you guarantee that you will not come to me in the future? Absolutely impossible! Come to this company, come to that company, come this month, and come again next month! Really I can't handle it." Vice Minister Jiao said with a troubled face.

"But what about the workers? The Spring Festival is coming soon, and the factory has had no expenses for two months!" Fan Jingyi said.

"How about this, I will report this matter to the minister first, and then we will have a meeting to work out a solution. You wait a few more days in the capital before leaving." Deputy Minister Jiao said.

During this time, Wang Weidong went to the brewery construction site 400 kilometers away and stayed for two days.

The foreign bulk carrier is about to unload at Tianjin Port.Then they can ship the equipment to the factory to wait for installation.

Li Yueshi has been keeping a close eye on Shancha shares during this time.During this period of time, Shancha shares have been rising moderately, and the stock price has risen by nearly 10% compared to the stock price when they arrived in Beijing, but the time has been prolonged and it is not very conspicuous.

Li Yueshi judged that there must be a lot of rats secretly buying the company's stock.

At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Weidong received a call from Shi Ke.

Shi Ke laughed heartily on the phone and said, "Weidong, I'll let you meet someone when I get home tonight."

"Minister Shi, if you still want to persuade me to be upright, forget it, I'm not interested in saving loss-making state-owned enterprises!" Wang Weidong pretended to refuse.

"Weidong, what's your attitude! Don't you even give me face? Are your wings stiff now?" Shi Ke pretended to be angry and said.

He completely assumed the posture of an elder reprimanding a junior.

"The person who came to my house tonight is not an outsider. I knew you before. It was Vice Minister Lu who was also the director of the Xiangyang Chemical Factory! Hurry up, everyone is from the original Xiangyang Chemical Factory, sit down and have a good talk. Let's talk about the past." Shi Ke said.

Hearing what Shi Ke said, Wang Weidong remained silent for a while, then pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Okay, since the leader is speaking, I'll go and have a look!"

After Vice Minister Lu arrived at the Xiangyang Chemical Plant, he began to vigorously promote the conversion of military personnel to civilians.The main two are the introduction of the float glass production line, and the other is the purchase of the small radio factory from Wang Weidong Ou Xiaoyang.

Due to his outstanding achievements in promoting military conversion to civilian work, Factory Director Lu was quickly transferred back to the Ministry to work in the Military to Civilian Working Group.

Regarding the fact that Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang sold the small radio factory to Xiangyang Chemical Factory for 30 yuan, Deputy Minister Lu did not say anything on the surface, but he was indignant in his heart.

In all fairness, Xiangyang Chemical Factory did not suffer a loss in buying that small radio factory, because the value of that factory is not in the production equipment, but in the sales channels that have been laid.

If it manages well, it can quickly earn back the 30 yuan it sold just by selling radios that can listen to campus broadcasts to several universities in Heilongjiang Province.

However, at that time, Director Lu appointed Deputy Director Fang to take charge of the work of the radio factory. Due to poor work and his own economic problems, Deputy Director Fang was executed in 1990, and the radio factory under Xiangyang Chemical Factory also completely collapsed. up.

This responsibility cannot be counted on Wang Weidong.

This time, Vice Minister Lu had no choice but to meet Wang Weidong at Shi Ke's house, because we all live in the same office compound, and it is very convenient to visit each other. Talk about acquiring a listed company.

Shi Ke said to the Minister: "Minister, the Qian Yuanzheng factory produced gun barrels during the construction of the third line. Now it has been converted to civilian products for so many years and has been unable to find the direction of production. The loss on the book is tens of millions. But you and I We all know that if we check carefully, there are at least more than 3000 million holes in the hole, which is already insolvent! Keeping it in your hands is a hot potato! If you sell it, not only can it be found for more than [-] employees in the factory A way out, and the money exchanged can also solve the problems of other factories in the Ministry, isn’t this killing two birds with one stone?”

The minister was very interested after hearing Shi Ke's suggestion, so he asked Vice Minister Lu to have a private interview with Wang Weidong.

It is impossible for the Minister to know the psychological activities of Deputy Minister Lu. He took it for granted that the reason why Wang Weidong is so familiar with Shi Ke is undoubtedly because Shi Ke used to be the director of Xiangyang Chemical Factory. The deputy minister had also been the director of Xiangyang Chemical Factory, so it would be better to send him to discuss this matter with Wang Weidong.

After hearing the minister's instructions, Vice Minister Lu's initial reaction was resistance.But he immediately came to his senses and realized that solving the management problems of state-owned enterprises is a big overall problem. If he contributes to the Ministry in this regard, what a great thing it would be!
This is just like when he made a drastic move in the Xiangyang Chemical Factory to promote the transition from military to civilian.

After figuring this out, Vice Minister Lu happily accepted the task, and then went to Shi Ke's home and asked Shi Ke to call Wang Weidong.

"The two old guys want to plot against me, so let's see who can plot against whom in the end!" Wang Weidong said naturally to the mirror.

After he changed his clothes, he took a car at the entrance of the hotel to Shi Ke's home.

The door opened, and Shi Ke and Vice Minister Lu stood at the door to greet him.

The moment he saw Wang Weidong, Vice Minister Lu immediately stepped forward and put his hands on Wang Weidong's shoulders and said, "Weidong, haven't we seen each other for ten years?"

Then he swung his head left and right to look carefully at Wang Weidong's appearance, then shook his head and sighed, "I feel that your appearance has not changed much in the past ten years, but your temperament has changed a lot, and you are more stable!"

Wang Weidong also said to Vice Minister Lu with a look of surprise: "Director Lu, I haven't seen you for ten years, and you still look so high-spirited! I was welcomed by two directors of Xiangyang Chemical Factory, which really made me tremble. !"

Hearing Wang Weidong's words, Shi Ke and Vice Minister Lu both laughed.The three of them walked into the living room and sat down. Wang Weidong observed Vice Minister Lu quietly, and found that he was looking at him sincerely with a smile, just like an elder looking at a younger generation.

Wang Weidong knew in his heart that Vice Minister Lu must be worried about the small radio factory. Seeing him like this now, he couldn't help feeling: a leader is a leader, and he is really capable!

"Weidong, you are the big boss now, but since our Xiangyang Chemical Factory stepped out, that is the pride of our Xiangyang Chemical Factory! If we tell it later, Lao Shi and I will both have face!" Vice Minister Lu said with a smile .

"I have been studying in Xiangyang Chemical Factory since I was a child, and I was educated by Xiangyang Chemical Factory to be able to be what I am today!" Wang Weidong said with a look of feeling.

In front of the two ministers, he consciously sat on half of his buttocks on the sofa, willing to be a junior.

"Weidong, let's get to the point. After you came to my house last time, I went to the minister and told him my opinion. There are two listed companies in the ministry that are not doing well. Since you want to buy a listed company Enterprises can choose one of these two companies." Shi Ke said.

"Minister Shi, you just said that these two listed companies are not doing well, so you still recommend it to me? What I want to buy is a listed company that is doing well!" Wang Weidong said with a bitter face.

"Weidong, it depends on people's efforts. The country is now advocating various methods to activate old state-owned enterprises. The Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing its ability! Just like the breakthrough of TV, we also have to break through! In just ten years, you have such a You are a big company, which shows that you are a capable person! Doesn’t the country advocate the use of new thinking and new management methods to promote state-owned enterprises? I think it’s suitable for you to do it!” Vice Minister Lu said.

(End of this chapter)