Chapter 45: Water Can Carry a Boat and Can Also Overturn It

Gu Bing took out a cigarette and lit it, then continued: "Actually, I don't have much ambition, or rather, I have no ambition at all. I came here just to go through the motions. I could be transferred at any time. Whether the factory collapses or goes bankrupt has nothing to do with me. But seeing over a thousand employees in the factory who can't even eat, my heart is getting more and more blocked.

I can't just watch over a thousand employees starve and do nothing, otherwise, I will live in guilt for the rest of my life. So, I proposed reform to save the factory at the minimum cost. But I didn't expect that this reform would touch the nerves of certain people, who, disregarding the life and death of over a thousand employees, tried every means and used despicable methods to suppress and prevent the liquor from being sold."

"Sigh!" Gu Bing sighed and patted Yan Guohai on the shoulder, scaring the old guy into a shiver.

"Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. Going against the trend and acting against over a thousand employees in the factory who are waiting to be fed will not end well."

Gu Bing pushed open the office door: "I'm going out to eat with Director Jian and Comrade Zhou Andong tonight. You come too, let's have a drink. If you don't come, I don't mind finding those twenty-plus individual merchants and convening a staff meeting with them."

The last sentence was a naked threat. Yan Guohai was crying without tears. It was truly gods fighting, and he, a mortal, was suffering. And Gu Bing suddenly becoming so strong also made him very unaccustomed.

But no matter what he thought, he was now being roasted on the fire by Gu Bing. Whether he went or not, the consequences were very serious.

If he didn't go, Zhou Andong would definitely convene a general staff meeting immediately, report his actions, and with those individual merchants as witnesses, he wouldn't be able to argue, and the final result would be being torn to shreds by the angry employees.

If he went, Gao Qingkui and Zhang Deyou wouldn't let him go either, but being liquidated was a matter for the future. Right now, he was absolutely safe. Thinking of this, Yan Guohai gritted his teeth. Although dying early or dying late was death, who didn't want to live a few more days?

Zhou Andong sat on the sofa smoking, while Jian Qiu and Jiang Yuyue were playing cards. Seeing Gu Bing come back, they looked up in unison. Seeing his triumphant look, they knew the result.

"Let's go, I'm hungry, let's go eat." Zhou Andong stood up and walked out.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Gu Bing grabbed Zhou Andong. "You don't ask me the result?"

Zhou Andong rolled his eyes: "No matter what the result is, we still have to eat, right?"

Jian Qiu threw the cards and greeted Jiang Yuyue: "Yuyue, let's go eat."

Watching the three leave the office, Gu Bing felt so stifled. He had originally wanted to show off, but these three guys didn't listen at all. The words were at his throat, but no one was listening, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

"Who did I offend in my previous life." Gu Bing muttered and chased after them quickly.

The four had just left the factory gate when Yan Guohai chased after them on his bicycle: "Secretary Gu, Director Jian."

Gu Bing nodded slightly. Yan Guohai got off his bicycle: "Where are we going to eat?"

Gu Bing said: "Go to the old place, the hot pot we had yesterday was not bad."

"Alright!" Yan Guohai said: "I'll go first, let them prepare it, and by the time you arrive, it will be almost ready."

Gu Bing waved his hand: "Go!"

Watching Yan Guohai leave, the four looked at each other. Zhou Andong laughed and said: "It seems that I saved the money for this meal tonight."

Jian Qiu snorted: "Saved today, eat tomorrow."

They played poker for almost a day, and Zhou Andong won again, and he was the only winner. The one who lost the most was Jian Qiu, who lost over two hundred.

They drank until after seven o'clock before dispersing. Zhou Andong put Jiang Yuyue on the bus, and it was almost nine o'clock by the time he got home.

"Brother Dong!" Zhou Andong had just lit the stove when Yao Jun lifted the door curtain and walked in.

"Why did you run over so late? Something up?"

Yao Jun took out a large stack of money from his pocket: "This is the money from Wu Cheng and the others selling calendars, over nine thousand six hundred."

Zhou Andong said: "So much?"

"No!" Yao Jun said: "They sold the liquor at various prices. This afternoon I went to the Finance Section and only settled the account according to the ex-factory price, so there is the profit from the liquor here."

Zhou Andong smiled: "What about Wu Cheng and the others? How much did you give them?"

Yao Jun said: "Two hundred each."

Zhou Andong nodded: "Alright, count half, we can have a good New Year this year."

This time Yao Jun didn't stand on ceremony, counted the money and gave it to Zhou Andong: "Here, I'll take the rest."

Zhou Andong took the money: "Keep some. After the New Year, we can use this money to do some business."

Yao Jun was stunned and asked curiously: "What business?"

Zhou Andong said: "Haven't thought about it yet. Wait until the liquor is sold and we get the bonus. Otherwise, this money is a bit small and not enough."

Yao Jun nodded. He didn't go back that night but stayed at Zhou Andong's place for a night. The two chatted until the second half of the night before sleeping, looking forward to the future.

January 10th, the sky finally cleared. The morning sun already had some temperature, and there seemed to be quite a few more pedestrians on the road than the past two days.

At nine o'clock in the morning, in the large conference room of the Municipal Committee Reception, thirty or forty people were sitting, all of whom were heads of various enterprises in Jiangzhou. However, these enterprises were already insolvent and on the verge of bankruptcy.

At nine-ten, Gao Qingkui walked in carrying a bag. Seeing him, the people in the conference room greeted him one after another.

"Factory Director Gao, the Jiangzhou Jiangzhou Yugong Liquor your factory launched is not bad. When will you get me a few bottles to drink, to see if it tastes better than big sorghum liquor."

"Yes, yes, yes, Old Gao, get me a few bottles too. The calendar advertisement you made is really not bad."

"Factory Director Gao, your factory's calendars are sent everywhere, but you don't say to send a few thousand copies to our brother units, and distribute some benefits to the employees. Really not enough meaning."

"Exactly, exactly. Giving that calendar to anyone is giving it, why not give it to us."

These people all knew the situation of the winery, and even more knew that the so-called Jiangzhou Jiangzhou Yugong Liquor was big sorghum liquor, so their tone and expression were full of ridicule, which made Gao Qingkui's face look worse and worse.

"Oh my, Old Gao, why is your face so ugly? Is there something uncomfortable?"

The guy who said this was called Liu Qingjun, who was once the Vice Factory Director of the winery, but was suppressed by Gao Qingkui and Zhang Deyou, and had to apply to be transferred to the Electronic Equipment Factory. But the grievances between the two accumulated deeper and deeper.

Gao Qingkui snorted coldly: "My body is fine. Even if you die, I won't die."

"That's not necessarily true!" Liu Qingjun said with a smile: "You're over sixty, I'm only forty-something. No, I'll definitely live longer than you." ===== CHAPTER 46 =====