Chapter 740: I

"Old Lu, where is your fat sea cucumber?"

Li Ye returned to the First Branch, entered Lu Zhizhang's office, pulled open his desk drawer, and rummaged around, not treating himself as an outsider at all.

Lu Zhizhang said with a smile: "Don't you like drinking Coke? Why drink fat sea cucumber?"

Li Ye said casually: "I talked a lot just now, I need to moisten my throat."

Lu Zhizhang's face froze. He found the fat sea cucumber for Li Ye and even brewed it for him, then watched Li Ye silently, asking nothing.

Li Ye raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Why don't you ask me what was said after I was caught?"

"It's probably about filling out our management team again, right?"

Lu Zhizhang said lightly: "I was also called over the day before yesterday, played a game of chess, and said a lot of things..."

Li Ye said in surprise: "You were also caught to play chess!"

"Heh, before you came to the unit, I was often caught to play chess..." Lu Zhizhang pursed his lips and said again: "But the day before yesterday, I won for the first time."

"You actually won? That's unexpected! And then?"

Li Ye was very surprised, because since he was often caught to play chess, he must have been identified as a direct descendant. Now he actually won for the first time...

Old Lu, are you going to rebel!

"Then I got scolded~"

Lu Zhizhang said calmly: "The General Manager didn't scold me, but others scolded me very badly, saying I was ungrateful, saying I was ungrateful and unrighteous, saying I had the ambition of a wolf, saying I was a slave of three surnames..."

"Sip, cough cough cough... hot, hot..."

Li Ye accidentally took a sip of water, a bit hot.

But he couldn't care about the heat at this moment and asked in a low voice: "Why did they scold you like that? Do you have the courage of Lu Bu?"

Lu Zhizhang laughed and said: "That's not it. I used to follow the old factory director. After the old factory director retired, several colleagues either transferred or changed posts, and I was the only one who wasn't much affected."

"Now that it's a joint venture, I came to the First Branch again... A few days ago, they felt I wasn't listening to them, so they scolded me..."

"..."

Lu Zhizhang's words made Li Ye laugh and cry.

The position of factory office director is generally the confidant of the unit's number one person, so Li Ye always thought Lu Zhizhang was promoted by the big factory director!

Now it seems that the old factory director was Lu Zhizhang's Bole, who had "knowledge and encounter grace" for him.

But conversely, when the big boss changed terms, being able to not clean you up, the old minister, was considered a disguised promotion.

As for Lu Zhizhang's strong ability and solid business, those highlights were not considered at all.

And Lu Zhizhang told Li Ye these things today, obviously also meaning to express his position. He really wanted to get on Li Ye's boat.

So those people scolding him as a contemporary Lu Bu couldn't be said to have no basis at all.

But Li Ye didn't dislike Lu Zhizhang.

"Old Lu, this matter will definitely be discussed at the meeting in the end. How do you plan to express your position?"

"Sigh~, I really don't want them to ruin the good atmosphere of the First Branch!"

Lu Zhizhang sighed and said: "You haven't been in the unit for a long time, Li Ye, so you might not feel the difference between the main factory and the First Branch."

"You want to do something in the main factory, from the beginning to the meeting, discussing it back and forth... you won't be able to implement it in a week or two."

"But in our First Branch? Problems are solved on the spot. Small problems don't pass the night, and big problems don't pass a day or two."

"But if those people come, it seems like our management team is full, and we aren't so tired, but I tell you, you won't be able to do anything smoothly in the future..."

"..."

Li Ye listened to Lu Zhizhang for a long time and then nodded: "I know, I also hate these 'fake middle managers' who only get in the way."

In his previous life, Li Ye experienced a similar situation in a unit.

The unit raised a bunch of "fake middle managers," each with a position, each with power, spending the whole day in meetings, reports, and more meetings, turning a small matter into a big one.

Li Ye thought at the time, you take high salaries, just drink tea in the office all day, isn't that fine? Anyway, there's no difference whether you are there or not.

But later, an old colleague said, if you drink tea with your head down all day, can you still transform the power you worked so hard to get into a sense of power satisfaction?

Well! People are pursuing both material and spiritual enjoyment!

Li Ye thought for a while and said: "Our First Branch needs to expand its scale next. We can't manage it alone, but we can't have those old oil sticks and fake middle managers like you said."

"Right, that's what I think too," Lu Zhizhang said: "When the meeting discusses it, I will propose that management cadres should be younger."

"We will promote some from within, and select some young people, or pragmatic factions like Master Ding, but we definitely can't be as bloated as the main factory."

Li Ye looked at Lu Zhizhang and said: "If you publicly propose it at the meeting, you will really offend a whole circle of people."

Lu Zhizhang laughed and said freely: "Then I'll just resign and go to sea like Guan Liang! That kid is now colluding with several people in the factory to resell, and he's making a fortune!"

"..."

That afternoon, Li Ye chatted with Ma Zhaoxian for a while and talked about Lu Zhizhang's and his own ideas.

After all, the First Branch is not a private enterprise. At the beginning, Lu Zhizhang and Li Ye might be allowed to "act arbitrarily," but later, personal power will inevitably be restricted.

It's just whether it can be restricted or not depends on personal ability. Those big figures who are bold enough to cover the sky, were they restricted?

This matter progressed very quickly. From the day after Li Ye played chess with the big factory director, the main factory began to discuss it at the meeting, arguing fiercely. In the end, even the Hong Kong manager Chen, who didn't show up much, joined the argument.

In the end, Ma Zhaoxian slammed the table and asked: "The First Branch has a good development momentum, why are you in such a hurry to change the management method? If there is a bad change after the change, who will be responsible? If someone is responsible, I will agree."

No one was willing to be responsible.

Because they were afraid that Ma Zhaoxian would dig a hole for them.

The big factory director was right. The two most important points for the development of a unit are buying in and selling out.

Part of the loan from Zhongxin Industrial Bank to the First Branch is a short-term revolving loan. If Ma Zhaoxian and Li Ye are provoked, they will come to urge the debt in two months. Let's see if you can pay it back.

And now, most of the production orders for the First Branch were pulled by Li Ye. If he doesn't want them later, will the First Branch still be booming?

After arguing for a full week, they finally argued out a result that all three parties were barely satisfied with.

In order to expand production scale, the First Branch transferred another batch of skilled workers and some young cadres from the main factory.

In addition, Li Ye was finally no longer an acting section chief, but filled the vacancy of deputy factory director that had been vacant for several months, responsible for both supply and sales.

In less than a year of joining the factory, he was promoted two levels in a row. Li Ye could be considered to have tied the fastest promotion record in the unit.

The last time it was this fast was during the special period more than ten years ago!

And on the main factory side, they sent the newly airborne deputy chairman of the labor union to the First Branch to form the First Branch's labor union and preside over the work of the labor union.

Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang didn't pay much attention to this arrangement.

Although the labor union mainly grasps the masses and holds the fatal weapon of "uniting the majority," it is already 1987. If you want to unite the majority, you can't just rely on slogans, right? ===== CHAPTER 741 =====