Chapter 711: Red and prosperous

Someone once said that if your superior leader emphasizes the glorious history of the unit to you all day long and depicts a bright future for you, but only keeps silent about the "present" you care about most, then he is drawing a big pie.

Of course, these words are not entirely derogatory, because the skill of drawing a big pie is a necessary skill for every manager. A clever woman can't cook without rice, and the leader is also very helpless, okay!

Now, Li Ye is a "leader."

Although he is only the deputy group leader of the reform pilot group, he leads more than a dozen people, and the people he influences are even more.

And the regular group leader Lu Zhizhang is "very busy," basically just coming over to go through the motions. As long as Li Ye makes suggestions, he never opposes them.

So Li Ye decided to be a different kind of leader. He doesn't talk about the past, doesn't discuss the future, and only lets everyone see the beautiful present.

This day, the pilot group held a meeting, and Li Ye suggested, "Director Lu, I have already contacted Changbei Machinery Company. They are willing to receive us for a visit. Why don't you organize a few dozen people to go and visit?"

Director Lu nodded happily, "That's good. I will coordinate this matter today. But how do you think the quota for people to visit should be allocated?"

Li Ye was prepared, "One-quarter management, three-quarters workers, especially frontline workers."

Director Lu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it immediately."

When Ma Zhaoxian was fighting and balancing with the big factory director, the reason he was willing to let Lu Zhizhang participate was actually for "arrangement" and "coordination."

Although with Guan Liang's excuse, Ma Zhaoxian and Li Ye got the power of the branch factory and the management reform pilot group, there were still thousands of relationships to deal with to carry out work.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. If there were no Lu Zhizhang, this regular group leader, Li Ye estimated he would be annoyed to death by various problems. People just don't oppose, don't cooperate, don't coordinate; what can you do?

And now, pulling Lu Zhizhang in as a "regular official" and having him come forward to solve various problems is much smoother than Li Ye solving them.

Of course, if Lu Zhizhang is playing a double undercover game with Li Ye, then Li Ye is burying a time bomb for himself.

But Li Ye believes that as long as Lu Zhizhang is shown some things, this danger will not exist.

Three days later, Lu Zhizhang gave Li Ye a list with some apologies.

"This is the list of personnel willing to visit Changbei Machinery Company. There is some discrepancy with what we expected; everyone's interest doesn't seem very high."

"Not very high? Why?"

Li Ye took the list in surprise, and after looking at it carefully, he understood immediately.

Most of the people on the list were those preparing to be assigned to the branch factory, and there were only a few people from other workshops and departments.

This is just not cooperating!

Speaking of which, it's a bit annoying. When the branch factory was first proposed, it was planned according to the standard of a "factory within a factory," not small, with all internal organs, and a establishment of at least 1,000 people.

But now that it is fully responsible by Ma Zhaoxian, this branch factory has shrunk by half, with only two large workshops and a few miscellaneous small departments, totaling a establishment of three or four hundred people.

Put in the army, this is changing from a regiment to a battalion! How big is the difference between a regiment commander and a battalion commander?

And looking at the current meaning, this management reform is also going to be limited to the branch factory for piloting.

Lu Zhizhang saw Li Ye silent and whispered, "Several master workers seem to have been instigated to take the lead in boycotting frontline employees from visiting. I let everyone sign up voluntarily, and the effect is not very ideal."

But Li Ye smiled, "No, this is very ideal."

The reason Li Ye smiled was that any small tricks in front of strength would be stupid moves of lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own feet.

March 1, 1987, Sunday, the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon raises its head.

Two large buses pulled seventy or eighty employees of the Light Auto Company, followed Li Ye's Santana, and drove out of the capital toward Changping County.

"I say, Director Lu, why don't you go sit in Li Ye's small car! Your official position is higher than his, so why squeeze into this drafty bus with us?"

"Old Mu, what are you saying? What kind of official am I?"

Lu Zhizhang smiled and said, "Li Ye's Santana is a private car, bought with his own money to serve his own family. What qualification do I have to sit in it?"

"Hey, that Li Ye... how to say it? He's not a bad kid, just young and vigorous, not smooth enough..."

"People are not smooth enough, and they are already managing us now. You are slippery, so why don't you get promoted to deputy section chief for us to see?"

"I am the working class, so how can I get promoted to deputy section chief for you? Old Huang, don't mess around here!"

"What's wrong with the working class? You can replace cadres with workers! You try to do one for us to see!"

Many people on the bus started teasing Old Mu, and Old Mu was unhappy.

"Go, go, don't tease me. If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn't have come even if I died today. Isn't it good to sleep in on a Sunday?"

"Sigh, Director Lu, why do you want us to visit on a Sunday? How many workers can we see on a Sunday? Don't tell me you want us to chat with the gatekeepers? Does the cafeteria provide lunch?"

"They even provide wine! Enough to get you drunk!"

"..."

Lu Zhizhang scolded with a smile, then quietly turned his head to look at an old man.

The old man was nearly sixty years old, his body was very strong, but he didn't speak, and didn't say a word along the way.

The old man's surname was Miao, and he was the only level-7 worker in this visiting team.

Many master workers in the factory collectively boycotted Li Ye's management reform, and the reason was that Li Ye's speech at the meeting that day damaged their interests.

Like Master Miao, these master workers had a large group of apprentices and grandchildren under them, and everyone in the workshop said one thing and no one dared to say another. If they raised their arms and shouted, they could scare the management cadres away.

And Li Ye said at the meeting that relying extremely on master workers in the production process was wrong and should be changed to relying on standards. Was this going to smash their rice bowls? No, this was taking their lives!

Only Master Miao was assigned to the branch factory, so it was really inappropriate not to come.

It's just that looking at Master Miao's appearance, he obviously wasn't very happy.

"Beep-beep~"

The Santana in front honked a few times, attracting everyone's attention.

The workers on the bus behind looked forward and saw the gate of Changbei Machinery Company.

"This gate has been around for years, right? Didn't they say the factory's efficiency is very good? Why don't they even fix the gate?"

"Maybe this is 'the bun has meat, not in the folds.' People don't care about these facades?"

"How is that possible? Have you ever seen someone who made money and didn't fix the gate?"

"..."

The large iron gate opened, and the three cars, two large and one small, drove in one after another and stopped in front of the old office building.

"Hey, this office building is really broken. Li Ye isn't putting on a satellite show for us, right?"

"Let's not talk about whether he's bragging or not. Anyway, we are guests. Why are there only these few people to welcome us?"

In front of the office building, only three people stood to welcome them. This shabby lineup made everyone a bit unhappy.

To be honest, the scene before their eyes made them very disappointed. Li Ye said the wages here were high and the efficiency was high, so how could it look so much worse than the Light Auto Company?

But Master Miao, who hadn't spoken along the way, suddenly frowned and suddenly shouted sternly: "Don't talk!"

"..."

No one on the bus talked anymore. Master Miao's prestige was very high, and everyone had to give him face.

Master Miao opened the bus window directly, stretched his head out, and listened carefully.

A few seconds later, his frown gradually relaxed.

"Everyone pay attention! Don't talk nonsense."

"..."

Everyone was a bit stunned. Master Mu asked in a low voice, "Master Miao, what do you mean by this?"

Master Miao snorted, "You are also an old master; can't you hear the sound of the machines?"

Master Mu paused, also opened the bus window and stretched his head out, listening carefully.

He was younger than Master Miao and had better hearing, so he soon said, "Yes, there is the sound of machines, but this... I understand."

Master Miao said with sudden realization: "Listen to this sound; it's the machines in the entire workshop running, and it's not just one workshop. They wouldn't let so many machines run empty just to put on a show for our visit. This means they are still rushing production even on a Sunday."

Master Miao nodded, "So, people really have work that can't be finished, but they don't care about facades like the gate and the office building. Deputy Wu Kezhang Li arranged for us to come on a Sunday to let us see that people's lives are red and prosperous."

"Red and prosperous?"

Master Mu repeated it, and his expression suddenly became desolate.

Their generation also had red and prosperous days!

When they were in their twenties and just entered the factory, everyone fought against heaven and earth and worked hard. Life was very bitter, but very happy.

And now that they are forty or fifty years old, that kind of happiness has long been gone, but that "bitterness" is still there.

Wages are never enough to spend, houses are never enough to live in, and the good days promised long ago can't be seen at all.

And what Li Ye said, even if half of it is true, it's fine!

"Let's go! We're at the place. Whether it's true or false, whether it's a mule or a horse, we'll know when we go down."

A group of workers who were disappointed just now were full of hope again. ===== CHAPTER 712 =====