Behind the scenes

Chapter 14

The gate of the machinery factory was closed tightly, and the prosperity of the past had long since disappeared. Director Huang waited for him at the gate. When the car arrived, he opened the big iron gate and let the car drive into the factory office. It was empty, there was no one there, the factory director's office was full of dust, and the heating in the building was not turned on. The office was very cold, and only one electric heater seemed to have just been turned on.Factory director Huang Caifa, 54, was [-] years old, with a sad expression on his face. He was about to wipe the dust on the sofa with a rag when he was stopped by Ma Guanjun, "You don't need to wipe it. I'll just stand and say a few words before leaving."

"Okay then." Factory Manager Huang stopped his hands and looked at Ma Guanjun with pitiful eyes.

"How long has the factory been shut down?" Ma Guanjun asked.

"A year and a half."

"Is there any life?"

"Not at all."

"Tell me about the basic situation in the factory."

"The original value of the fixed assets of the whole factory was 500 million yuan, and the current net value is about 500 million yuan. The external debts, mainly ICBC loans, are 1000 million yuan. Adding the interest of these years, the total is about 300 million yuan." Director Huang Say these numbers very fluently.

"What do you want to do next? The mobilization meeting has been held, and you have heard what Mayor Liu said just now. As the factory manager, you can't always be so empty-handed, you have to do something!" Ma The champion looked at Director Huang's face and said.

"What can I do? Such a big chaotic factory with so many burdens, I just want to sell it, who can afford it?"

"Someone wants to buy your factory?"

"Who?"

"Jiang Dashan."

"Him?" Factory Manager Huang shook his head.I don't know if he doesn't believe this, or Jiang Dashan.

"He really has this idea and has already discussed it with the government. We think that since someone wants to buy it, the factory should also take the initiative to sell it. As for the conditions, it is all on the basis of mutual discussion, and the government will no longer interfere. You are the factory manager, yes Legal representative, you should take a positive attitude in this matter!" Ma Guanjun said.

"I am 55 years old. I have worked in this factory for more than ten years, and I don't want to do anything. The government sells it as it sees. I really don’t want to worry about this, otherwise, more than 1000 workers will scold me.” Factory Manager Huang spoke his mind with reluctance.

Ma Guanjun thought for a while and said: "Don't be discouraged. The government knows about your work. If you do a good job in reforming, that is to say, take care of this enterprise, I can talk to Liu The mayor said, let me change your place to work in a government agency, the Municipal Bureau of Technical Supervision still lacks a deputy director, and you are from a technical background, so your ability will not be a problem, what do you think?"

Factory Manager Huang's attitude immediately changed upon hearing this. "Secretary Ma, are you serious? If I really help sell this factory, can I really become the deputy director of the Municipal Technical Supervision Bureau?"

"Then there's nothing wrong with it, isn't it just a word from Mayor Liu! The key is that you want to sell this company well."

"How to sell? Tell me."

"I said? What should I say? You take the initiative to go to Jiang Dashan, listen to his conditions, and see if you can accept them. If both parties can accept them, the government will not intervene. But this matter must be done quickly. First, as soon as the news unit publicizes, things will be easy to handle. After the factory’s affairs have been dealt with, the government will naturally think of you as the factory director, especially based on your performance. Isn’t it normal for you to be appointed as the director of the government department? !"

"That's good, that's good. I'll go find Jiang Dashan right away." Factory Manager Huang was about to leave as he said, but was stopped by Ma Guanjun, "I'm in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry, at least you have to learn the documents from today's meeting Let's talk about Mayor Liu's report, especially the party and government team of your factory, you have to sit down and discuss it, and you have to come up with a preliminary plan, how to sell it? How much? Where are people going? What about retired people? Do it, things are very complicated, you can't be too simple, the city government wants to use your factory as a pilot unit, it is to produce experience, produce results, and serve as a demonstration, understand?"

Director Huang nodded repeatedly. "Understood, understood."

Li Zimin returned to Xianghan from the rural work conference in the province, only to find out that the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee had approved the plan to sell the company, and the government's mobilization meeting had also been held.He had read all these news in newspapers and on TV, especially Liu Rong's wonderful mobilization report on TV, which left a deep impression on him.When he went to work the next day, he conveyed the main spirit of the Provincial Rural Work Conference to Liu Rong, and put a bag of documents from the meeting on Liu Rong's desk.Liu Rong said, "Thank you, old mayor." He didn't say a word about the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and the mobilization meeting of the government.Since the mayor didn't mention it, Li Zimin didn't feel comfortable asking again, especially the matters decided by the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, not to mention him as a consultant, even when he was the mayor, he must implement it.Coming out of Liu Rong's office, he went down to the second floor and came to the room of the deputy director Bai Zhi. He wanted to ask what Liu Rong said in the mobilization report. When he opened the door, he saw that the room was full of smoke. Zhizheng was smoking a cigarette while reading the newspaper. When he saw Li Zimin coming in, he hurriedly stood up, "The consultant is here, please sit down."

"The house is full of cigarettes, and I don't let them out. If I smoke like this, how many boxes do I need a day?" Li Zimin asked.

Bai Zhi got up and opened the door, and put out the cigarettes in the room, "Two and a half boxes a day!"

"The money you earn is not enough to smoke. What brand do you smoke?" Li Zimin said, picking up the cigarette case on the table and looking at it. It was Honghe, a brand he had never seen before.Bai Zhi said: "Advisor, you were a bureaucrat when you were mayor, and you are still a bureaucrat now. Don't you know that cadres are divided into four classes for smoking?"

"What are the four classes, tell me and let me hear."

Bai Zhi said: "Ruan Zhonghua, Hard Yuxi, this cadre is really awesome. Jipinyun, a pen, this cadre is enough. Furong Wang, Bian Sanwu, this cadre is unambiguous. Septwolves, Hongtashan, this cadre is very average. I, the dignified deputy director of the government office, can't even smoke the fourth-class Hongtashan, but can only smoke the Honghe, which is a box of RMB [-]. Tell me, what's the point of me being an official and a smoker? You Why are my cigarettes so heavy? Didn’t I write reports and materials for you mayors? Every night, I stay up late with lights on and work overtime. I can only smoke this Honghe, and get over this mouth addiction." Bai Zhi and Li Zimin are relatively familiar with each other, and coupled with some emotions during this period, they speak more casually.Li Zimin admired Bai Zhi's writing style very much. He once thought of mentioning him as the deputy secretary-general in charge of writing for the government, but now, he is no longer the mayor, and this idea was just a thought at that time.

Li Zimin smiled: "You really have a lot of nonsense, where did you learn it? No wonder the name is Bai Zhi, you are really smart."

Bai Zhi said: "What kind of wisdom do I have? I am already an idiot. The two words wisdom and ignorance are related. A person has knowledge, but he must have eyes. This is wisdom. Does the knower add eyes? As for me, although I have some knowledge, I am sick, knowing that I am an idiot when I am sick, and I am an idiot now, I pack up and prepare to leave!"

Li Zimin said: "Don't give me a few good words, just show off. You are both wise and stupid. Let me ask you, what did Mayor Liu's report say?"

"What? I don't know."

"You don't know, didn't you write the report?" Li Zimin asked.

"It was written by Wu Qing. I didn't even read a word. I'm too lazy to read it." Bai Zhi said while lighting a cigarette.

Li Zimin wanted to criticize him a few words, but he thought to himself, as the deputy director of the office, Ma Guanjun came so late, so he could be promoted to the deputy secretary-general. It is understandable for the hard-working Bai Zhi to say a few complaints .He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say for a moment, so he walked out of Bai Zhi's office without saying anything.

20
In the past few days, Zheng Gang secretly handled a few things in the factory according to Li Zimin's order.After private communication and research by several members of the factory leadership team, especially after listening to the opinions of Zhou Changxue, the chief technical officer, they shut down one production line, and the output of the other production line also dropped to the lowest level. Externally, they still said that they were producing at full capacity and reported to the public. The production reports and various data are still based on the data during normal production.The head of the factory's statistics section approached Zheng Gang and said, "Factory manager, false reporting of figures like this is against the statistics law."Zheng Gang said, "What if you don't report it like this? The city government does not allow production to be suspended. All production is at full capacity. There is a major problem with the equipment. What do you say?" The chief of the statistics section also shook his head helplessly.Zheng Gang said, "Let's report it according to the original number. I will take full responsibility for any accident."

The 23rd of the lunar calendar is a traditional small year, and it is also a public holiday on Saturday.However, the General Chemical Plant has no Sundays and holidays. As soon as he went to work in the morning, Zheng Gang came to the control room of the No. 1 main device, and Zhou Changxue was also here.These days, he basically stays in the main control room every day, observing the production situation and recording various data.Seeing Zheng Gang coming in, he was about to stand up from the chair, but was held down by Zheng Gang, Zheng Gang looked at the computer screen and asked: "How is it, is it normal?"

Zhou Changxue shook his head, "It's very strange. One line has been closed, and the output of the other line is so low. Ordinarily, ordinary minor problems should be corrected, but now, it's still so abnormal. I wonder if it's inside There is a big problem with the main part."

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"In my opinion, there is no other way but to stop all production." Zhou Changxue said affirmatively.

"But the suspension of production requires the approval of the city government. I, the factory manager, can say that it doesn't count. You know that." Zheng Gang said in a very embarrassed way.

"How about..." Zhou Changxue thought for a while, "How about this? In previous years, the factory didn't have a lot of holidays for the Spring Festival, but this year we will have a holiday, saying that the workers are too tired. They all have this requirement. Once the holiday is over, we will stop the device. , After the new year, we said that the device was broken and couldn't start up, so we got him raw rice and cooked it, and the higher ups probably couldn't do anything about it."

"Okay. This trick really works." Zheng Gang patted Zhou Changxue's shoulder, "Today is the 23rd of the lunar calendar, how about we stop on the 29th?"

"I think it can be earlier. How about 25? No one knows a few days earlier."

"25 is 25, but I still need to communicate with several other deputy directors in private."

When Zheng Gang communicated with several deputy factory managers, everyone agreed, but they all said that this matter must not be made public, and the government must not be known.At one o'clock in the afternoon, Ma Guanjun, the deputy secretary-general of the government, called Zheng Gang and said that he had seen the production report of the Economic Commission and was still dissatisfied with the production output of the chemical plant. The production got off to a good start, a tribute to the new government.He also told Zheng Gang that he and Mayor Liu Rong will go to the province to express condolences to relevant departments and leaders, and he will not be able to return until two days later. The factory made preparations earlier to increase the monthly output by a large amount.Zheng Gang thought to himself, I am about to stop production, and you still come to express condolences. Three days later, only the gate of the factory was closed. let go.After putting down the phone, he thought for a while, and then came to the main control room of No. 1 device. Seeing that Zhou Changxue was still sitting there, he explained the matter of the phone call just now. Tell the city leaders beforehand, otherwise, a large group of people will come to the factory to express their condolences, and there will be a large number of reporters from radio and television stations. Our factory door is locked and the whole factory has stopped production. long."

Zheng Gang thought for a while and said, "If I go to report now, they won't agree. If I don't agree, I will violate the organizational principles and make a bigger mistake. Besides, Mayor Liu and Secretary-General Ma are now in the province. To give condolences, in fact, to give gifts before the Spring Festival, I can't find them, anyway, I don't want to do this factory director, so I can do whatever I like!"

Zhou Changxue said: "Factory Manager, you can't think like this. Our factory is really managed by you alone. I never flatter anyone. Without you, others will not be able to handle it. Not for yourself, just for yourself. For the more than 1000 workers in the factory, you have to do a good job, or else, all of them will stop production and be laid off, and go to drink the northwest wind?"

Zheng Gang said: "As factory directors, we don't know much about politics and official affairs. Those officials are better than us. Let me tell you a real story. I won't name them. Yes. Anyway, he is the director of a bureau of industrial administration. The industry he is in charge of is in a downturn, and production cannot go up. Whenever the mayor holds a production scheduling meeting and reports, he is always criticized. Sometimes he can’t even eat. , Then I thought about what I was planning, so I held a meeting and asked him about the output, and he said that it could be completed, and he promised that there would be no problem. The mayor was very happy and did not approve him. More than half a year passed like this. He was not at home for a meeting, and the mayor held a production scheduling meeting. The deputy directors knew in their hearts that no one would attend the meeting, and sent the production section chief. The production section chief is a practical person, and he doesn't know the inside story here. The mayor asked, can the output value of your bureau be completed before the end of the year? The production section chief looked at the figures and was so frightened that his head was sweating. Now that he has not completed even three-tenths, how can he complete it in the few months at the end of the year? As for this task, he shook his head again and again, saying that it couldn’t be done, it couldn’t be done at all. The mayor was very angry when he heard this, and approved the section chief, and told him that when the director came back from a business trip, he would come to see the mayor immediately and report in detail. The section chief was sweating and returned to the bureau after being scolded by the mayor. Seeing this, several deputy bureau chiefs were secretly happy. A few days later, when the bureau chief came back from a business trip, the chief of the production section was reprimanded by the mayor. After talking about the matter again, he also said that the mayor wanted you to report immediately. The director was so angry that he scolded the section chief: You are such a stick. He immediately picked up the phone and reported to the mayor, Mayor, I just After returning from a meeting in other places, I listened to the section chief’s report. Our section chief did not understand the situation and made a mistake in the figures. The section chief asked me to criticize him. Mayor, please rest assured that this output value is guaranteed to be completed. The mayor was very happy to hear this, and even praised him a few words. Putting down the phone, the director said to the section chief, "You know what, there are twelve production scheduling meetings a year, and I want him to criticize twelve times. Live or not? Now I want to satisfy him eleven times, and after No. 12 months, I will ask him to approve it once after a meeting. Don’t you understand the truth? The chief of the department understands it now, and the chief of the bureau is better than the chief of the department. You are brilliant. Praising eleven times and being criticized once is better than being criticized twelve times!" After Zheng Gang finished telling the story, Zhou Changxue laughed so hard that he almost shed tears.

(End of this chapter)