Chapter 143: Bodhisattva's Heart, Thunderbolt Means

"I heard it's to build a residential area?!"

"Supervisor Tao, the first batch of quotas must have your share, right?"

"I heard the purchase price is the cost price. The commercial housing newly built in the provincial capital is 900 yuan per square meter. I don't know what the price of our factory's staff building is?"

"Can the house you mentioned compare with the house our factory is going to build? Our factory heard that it is going to hire professional designers, and also install flush toilets and water heaters. How can it be less than 1,000 yuan per square meter?!"

Various questions and arguments were all asked to Tao Zhiliang, the production supervisor of the Dongling Gao Ke Electronic Industrial Park. Tao Zhiliang, who was asked, was not annoyed, but just listened with a smile.

Not to mention Pingyang, even for the Hanxi provincial capital, or Yanjing, Shanghai, etc., a modern residence is also scarce now. A house for settling down is the focus of controversy and attention in any era.

"Stop arguing. There will be news from the factory. When the time comes, those who meet the housing purchase conditions can apply!"

Seeing the young people around him arguing until their faces were red and their ears were red, and several middle-aged staff were also full of expectations, Tao Zhiliang sighed. He also understood that everyone wanted this new house. The younger ones wanted this house as a wedding room, and the middle-aged staff wanted to arrange it for their sons and daughters. In Pingyang or even in Hanxi Province, if anyone works at Dongling Gao Ke and has a new house, this condition is quite good whether looking for a partner or arranging for children.

For Tao Zhiliang himself, he was actually looking forward to it a bit. He could accept whether he lived in a new house or an old house, but he still had to consider his son and daughter at

While they were talking, the production workshop assistant suddenly came over and asked Tao Zhiliang to go to the industrial park office.

Hearing this, the crowd of production workshop personnel around them looked at Tao Zhiliang with envy; everyone knew in their hearts what it meant to be called over at this critical juncture.

Tao Zhiliang walked toward the office building of the Dongling Gao Ke Industrial Park. Currently, the industrial park was still a large construction site, but many buildings had already risen from the ground, including the new workshop where Tao Zhiliang worked, as well as a sizable warehouse—or storage center, as it was also called—which could be used as a warehouse or have its temperature adjusted to store various raw materials.

One of the industrial park's office buildings had been completed and put into use by the time winter arrived; the others, including the cafeteria and the first dormitory building, had also been put into use one after another.

The dormitory building was mainly for the use of production line personnel who could apply to live there. Although they were six-person rooms, the conditions were acceptable. Each floor had a public shower room, and heating was provided in the winter. Currently, fans were installed, and it was rumored that air conditioning would be installed in the summer, though it was unclear if that was true. A symbolic management fee of a few yuan was charged each month, and electricity bills for each dormitory were paid by the residents themselves.

Charging those few yuan wasn't really for the money, but to ensure that the residents maintained hygiene. The management fees were used for cleaning and trash removal. If a dormitory's hygiene remained poor, the residents would be evicted from the dormitory, and it would even affect their work on the production line.

Tao Zhiliang didn't know how others felt about the accommodation experience, but for Tao Zhiliang, who often worked overtime, it was acceptable; after a busy and tiring day, he had a place to rest.

Walking toward the office building took about ten minutes. Along the way, Tao Zhiliang saw many construction sites by the road. He heard that these sites were being built for the staff in the industrial park, including activity rooms for basketball and badminton, as well as a library, gym, and computer room.

But he heard that except for the library, these places all cost money. If they weren't expensive, like the cafeteria which offered discounted prices for industrial park personnel, Tao Zhiliang would have liked to go in and see for himself.

There was another point that made Tao Zhiliang hesitate: the industrial park had recently been encouraging staff to sign up for correspondence courses and short-term training classes. This project was a collaboration with Pingyang University and Hanxi Jiaoda, inviting teachers from these universities to come and teach professional courses in vocational skills and management.

Those who participated in the correspondence courses didn't need to pay fees; the Dongling Gao Ke Industrial Park covered the costs, which was also an incentive for personnel to participate. However, taking such courses required using time after work and on rest days. As for what would happen after graduation, there would be a correspondence course diploma, but what use this certificate had, whether it would lead to a pay raise, or a promotion, was all unknown.

Tao Zhiliang was hesitating whether to participate. For Tao Zhiliang, learning was definitely the right thing to do; he had known this for many years, especially when comparing himself to those of his age who had gotten into university. If he hadn't been lucky enough to join Dongling Gao Ke, his life would definitely be far inferior to those who had gone to university. Anyone who graduated from university was at least a section-level cadre.

What Tao Zhiliang worried about was that he was already old and didn't know if he could absorb professional knowledge, and work was too busy; he didn't know if he could complete the courses. These were Tao Zhiliang's concerns.

As for the young people in the production workshop, Tao Zhiliang had always been urging them to sign up, but not many people responded to him. Even though Tao Zhiliang found out that if students performed well and showed talent in the correspondence courses or short-term training classes, the industrial park would select the best to cover their tuition and send them to university for further studies—only they would have to return to Dongling Gao Ke to work for a certain number of years after graduation, otherwise they would face compensation.

But that was going to university for further studies! In his past life, even decades later, although it was an era where it was said that if you threw a brick on the street, nine out of ten people you hit would be university students, the proportion of domestic university students was only 8%, meaning that in every hundred families, fewer than ten could produce a university student.

Not to mention university students now; their value was truly maxed out. Like Dongling Gao Ke, as long as a university student interviewed, they were basically guaranteed to get in. Even if they couldn't directly become management like team leaders or supervisors, they would still be sitting in an office, and their wages, benefits, and bonuses were far better than those of production line staff.

But no matter how much Tao Zhiliang talked, there were never many people signing up on the production line in the production workshop. Some said they weren't cut out for it and lacked the talent for learning, while others worried that joining the correspondence course would delay their overtime work and earnings.

Some even stated directly that they didn't want to join the correspondence course and just wanted to date girls, telling Tao Zhiliang not to waste his breath. If he had that energy, he should have the production workshop hold a social mixer with girls from other departments to help them solve their single status. There were never many people willing to sign up, which made Tao Zhiliang very helpless.

With these thoughts, he arrived at the office building. The ten-story modern office building was eye-catching enough in the current Pingyang. Inside, there were multiple elevators. The Pingyang municipal government had borrowed this building for several important meetings in the second half of the year, which truly gained some face for Pingyang in front of its brother cities.

"Technician Song!"

After Tao Zhiliang entered the office of Duan Youli, the manager of the Dongling Gao Ke Production Department and also the manager of the Dongling Gao Ke Industrial Park, he saw that the industrial park's technical supervisor Song Yajun, as well as the administrative supervisor, warehouse supervisor, security supervisor, and others were all present.

Among them, the one with the best relationship with Tao Zhiliang was technical supervisor Song Yajun. The two dealt with each other the most. Song Yajun was truly devoted to the production workshop; whenever Tao Zhiliang had any problems, Song Yajun was always the first to arrive.

Seeing Tao Zhiliang, the old workhorse Song Yajun nodded, his face full of smiles; clearly, there was good news.

At this moment, the office door was pushed open, and a man with a somewhat chubby figure and a joyous face pushed the door and entered. Seeing this person, Tao Zhiliang, Song Yajun, and the crowd of industrial park supervisors all stood up immediately. "Manager Duan!"

Duan Youli was all smiles, appearing very polite when facing the crowd of supervisors, especially toward Tao Zhiliang and Song Yajun, showing no attempt to hide his closeness to them.

"Sit, everyone sit. What does it look like standing? Old Song, Old Tao, this is stuff brought back from Europe by General Manager Zhang of the Sales Department. I can't use it here, so you take it home for your children!"

As he spoke, Duan Youli gave a bottle of red wine, a bottle of champagne, some Iberian ham, and a portion of high-quality coffee to the two of them. Song Yajun and Tao Zhiliang tried to decline, but Duan Youli stuffed them into their hands anyway.

After giving the items to Tao Zhiliang and the other, Duan Youli chatted with several supervisors for a while. Whose daughter was dating, whose son had recently caused trouble—Duan Youli was quite concerned about everything, and the smile on his face never disappeared.

But facing this concern from Duan Youli, neither Song Yajun nor Tao Zhiliang nor the other industrial park supervisors dared to take it for granted, and they certainly didn't dare to treat Duan Youli as someone easy to bully.

Beneath the smile, in the eyes of the people in the industrial park, Duan Youli was absolutely a fierce tiger. He was a person recruited by Dongling Gao Ke General Manager Ren Yuefeng. Don't look at his smile like a Maitreya Buddha at this moment; he was not soft-hearted at all when he took action. The number of people fired since the industrial park was established didn't add up to as many as those fired after he took over as industrial park manager!

As soon as Duan Youli took over as industrial park manager, he formulated a set of stricter production and safety standards. Production had to be strictly in accordance with standards; no unauthorized changes to operating procedures were allowed. He designated dangerous work areas and posts, as well as designated smoking areas. Everyone in the industrial park could only smoke within the specified time and in the specified area, and everyone entering the industrial park had to comply.

When it was first formulated, no one cared, but when the announcement came out that the first ten people caught violating these regulations—especially the last one regarding smoking areas—were all fired by Duan Youli, the entire industrial park was shaken.

What truly established Duan Youli's "notorious reputation" was an incident involving a member of the headquarters Sales Department who came over. After discussing orders with the Production Department, he violated the regulations by smoking at the entrance of the production workshop.

Everyone knew that sales personnel who could bring in orders were "big daddy" level existences in the company. But after such a member of the Sales Department was caught violating the regulations, Duan Youli directly took the case to the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters, demanding the Sales Department fire this person on the grounds of a major violation of industrial park production safety.

At that time, Zhang Ao was far away in Europe, but he also spoke to Duan Youli on the phone, pleading for this sales person and willing to pay a fine of half a year's salary to keep him, but Duan Youli was immovable. After a big argument, the two parted on bad terms.

In the end, the case went to Ren Yuefeng. Ren Yuefeng also had a headache. When he first came to Dongling Gao Ke, he used people from the Sales Department to establish his authority, and his relationship with Zhang Ao had once become very tense. Now it was the turn of Duan Youli, who could be considered his confidant. Plus, Zhang Ao was in Europe at the critical moment of the decisive battle with Ximen, so Ren Yuefeng really didn't want to deal with this matter.

But Duan Youli was quite tough, saying that either the person who violated the regulations left, or he would get out, which forced the case all the way to Li Dongling.

And in the end, it ended with Duan Youli's victory. After the sales person was temporarily suspended and sent home to reflect for a few months, and after the Shenzhou phone defeated Ximen in Europe, Dongling Gao Ke gave this sales person a sum of money and let him leave.

This incident completely established Duan Youli's prestige within the industrial park. After he took office, the accident rate in the industrial park dropped by a large margin. Previous minor accidents never happened again, and product quality improved by 16%.

But Duan Youli was very generous to those who truly did the work and understood technology, like Song Yajun and Tao Zhiliang. He promoted many capable and skilled people to become management in the industrial park and won more bonuses and benefits for the production line overtime staff. The project of holding correspondence courses and providing opportunities for outstanding industrial park talent to go to university was also advocated by Duan Youli.

This resulted in everyone in the industrial park, including supervisors like Song Yajun and Tao Zhiliang, both respecting and fearing Duan Youli. No one dared to play tricks or use schemes in front of him; Duan Youli really dared to fire people!

(End of this chapter)