Chapter 834

Li Ye's actions were much faster than Lai Jiayi had imagined; the next morning, he gathered all the employees from team leader level and above to hold a meeting.

As soon as the meeting started, Lu Zhizhang said: "Everyone is here! Today is mainly to talk about the welfare housing allocation. Before we talk about it, each department and team should take this employee housing registration form down."

Then, Xiao Zhiyu from the microcomputer room began to distribute a large stack of registration forms.

"First Workshop Electromechanical Maintenance Team, Team Leader Wang, your team has four people in total, right? That's correct..."

"Transportation Team, Team Leader Li, you have twenty-six people in total, twenty-six forms in total, please take them well..."

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With the distribution of the forms, everyone took it seriously. In this day and age, printers were still very precious things; with thousands of employees in the factory, every single person actually had a printed sheet of paper, which looked very "official."

"After each department and team takes the registration forms back, be sure to distribute them to every employee and fill them out carefully according to the requirements. Now, I will explain the precautions for filling them out..."

Li Ye actually set up a slide projector, displaying an enlarged version of the housing registration form on the white wall behind him.

"For the first item here, you must fill in the ownership situation of the housing the employee currently lives in, such as whether it is your parents' house, your spouse's house, or if you live with your children.

These must be filled out according to the facts! Because after the allocation results come out, these will all be posted at the doors of the departments and workshops for public notice. If any false behavior is pointed out by others, then don't blame the factory for being heartless..."

"This housing allocation considers, first, the employee's actual housing situation; second, the employee's seniority and age; and third, the employee's need for marriage."

As Li Ye explained carefully item by item, Lai Jiayi's eyes gradually turned cold and sharp.

She felt she had been played.

Because Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang clearly had their own ideas about welfare housing allocation, so why had they handed the research over to her before?

And this move played by Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang actually devolved the right to know and the right to supervise welfare housing allocation down to the team or even individual level; it was truly a huge joke.

For things like welfare housing allocation, it was best to let the employees below be unclear about the specific allocation rules, "handle special circumstances with special treatment," and then it would be easy to operate and manipulate.

If all employees were made clear about it, could this allocation behavior still be controllable? If I want to allocate the house to my own people, is there still room for operation?

In that era, many employees didn't know how they were screened out; when they went to the Housing Management Section to ask, people wouldn't pay attention to them, wouldn't explain it to them, and would just dismiss them with a "factory decision."

And listening to Li Ye's current meaning, seniority, age, and per capita residential area were the top priorities, with position rank ranked fourth or fifth.

How many years of convention had it been? Only when a section chief moved into a new house would there be an old house for the team leader, right? Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

And Li Ye's next words made Lai Jiayi almost go berserk.

"Here I must emphasize! We only recognize the employee's spouse and immediate family members; don't fill in any nephews, nieces, uncles-in-law, sons-in-law, etc.

The housing situation of immediate family members must also be written down. It is your business if you are willing to take care of a whole family, but it cannot be used as a reason for housing allocation..."

Lai Jiayi currently lived in a house with her husband, so in principle, it was not easy to be allocated a house, but her housing application stated that she lived with her father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter, and son-in-law, and that it was extremely crowded and must be allocated a house.

But in fact, her father-in-law and mother-in-law had an old house; if she were allocated a building apartment at the First Branch Factory, the house she currently lived in would be given to her daughter.

But now, according to the standards Li Ye mentioned, she, Lai Jiayi, did not meet the criteria for housing allocation.

As the third-in-command of the First Branch Factory, she couldn't be allocated a new house—what kind of joke was this?

Lai Jiayi looked at Old Qi, Old Li, and others in the audience.

She had already cleared the air with these people yesterday, and now Li Ye's actions confirmed Lai Jiayi's prediction; none of them would be allocated a house.

Old Qi immediately raised his hand to request to speak.

"Deputy Factory Director Li, isn't this housing allocation standard formulated too heartlessly? Fathers, mothers, fathers-in-law, and mothers-in-law are old; living together is convenient for taking care of them, so why must it be divided so clearly?"

Li Ye raised his eyebrows and said: "Old Master Qi, some things are not divided clearly, which easily gives people an opportunity to take advantage and easily causes contradictions and criticism. When the time comes, everyone will compare who has more relatives, so how can it be allocated?"

"And if the parents or parents-in-law do not have a house in their name, of course, they can be given priority for housing allocation, but if they have a house in their name, will the old house be handed over to the unit after the new house is allocated?"

Old Qi pursed his lips, weighed it quickly in his heart, nodded, and said: "If a new building apartment is allocated, the old house should logically be handed back to the unit."

Old Qi's family currently lived in two rooms; changing to a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment was still cost-effective.

But Li Ye's next words left him dumbfounded.

"This situation also needs to be written on the registration form; when the time comes, just hand the key to the old house to the First Branch Factory's Comprehensive Office."

The house Old Qi's parents currently lived in belonged to the main factory; how could it be handed over to the First Branch Factory's office?

If it were handed over, it would actually be the First Branch Factory helping the main factory alleviate housing difficulties.

Li Ye looked at the few people below with furrowed brows and explained again: "I know everyone thinks it's heartless; now that you are clearly working at the First Branch Factory, you are still living in the dormitories of other units,

but this situation is only temporary. We will continue to build welfare buildings next and strive to let every employee live in a new building apartment within five years..."

Old Qi looked at Li Ye and turned his head away resentfully to look elsewhere.

He believed this was Li Ye making things difficult for people.

But Li Ye clarified the standard of immediate family members precisely to avoid all kinds of chaos and to avoid all kinds of speculation and buck-passing.

For their own interests, workers could also come up with all kinds of reasons and methods to make unreasonable demands; it was better to clarify the standards in advance. The first thing to solve was the truly housing-difficult households.

Families with parents plus children having only one house couldn't even be allocated one yet, so how could they take care of families that clearly had two houses and just lived together?

"Ahem, let me add a few words!"

Lu Zhizhang took over Li Ye's words and said simply and directly: "According to this housing allocation standard, neither Deputy Factory Director Li nor I will participate in the welfare housing allocation, so please understand the factory's difficulties.

But what Deputy Factory Director Li said is not boasting; we have already invested tens of millions of dollars to introduce two advanced automobile production projects from Japan. As long as everyone works together, our profits will more than double in five years, and by then, a few houses will be an easy matter..."

"Tens of millions of dollars? Goodness, this is a bigger move than the main factory's introduction of Isuzu technology!"

"But the main factory's Isuzu is not yet in mass production, and we..."

"Can we be the same? How much salary did you get last month? Don't compare the First Branch Factory with the main factory; it's not the same grade..."

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No matter what year or month it was, there were people willing to eat the "big pie" 【empty promises】, not to mention that Lu Zhizhang's "big pie" was a factual existence, so after he finished speaking, it immediately sparked enthusiastic discussion among the group of worker brothers.

But Lai Jiayi looked at Li Ye in shock; she seemed to understand why Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang still didn't agree to increase the profit distribution to the main factory from a three-month advance to six months after returning from Japan.

Having borrowed so much money and still wanting to allocate houses to every worker, were they planning to spend all the money on the First Branch Factory and not leave a single cent of profit?

So Lai Jiayi couldn't help but ask: "Deputy Factory Director Li, does the cost of tens of millions of dollars need to be repaid by our First Branch Factory? Wouldn't that mean each person has to bear thousands of dollars in debt?"

The group of worker brothers fell silent.

A debt of tens of millions of dollars was simply too large.

But Li Ye said lightly: "No matter how this money is repaid, it won't come out of the pockets of the worker brothers, so everyone don't worry."

"Hahahaha~"

"Yes, yes, yes, if the sky falls, the unit will hold it up; what are we worrying about?"

Li Ye looked at Lai Jiayi again and said once more: "Since the establishment of our First Branch Factory, we have followed one principle: to be worthy of the country above and to be worthy of the masses below."

"Every month, we hand over ten percent of our profits according to state regulations, which is being worthy of the country,"

"After we make money, we improve the workers' housing conditions and increase the workers' wages and bonuses, which is being worthy of the masses, so I have a clear conscience about how the First Branch Factory develops."

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The group of workers was silent for a moment, and suddenly they all started applauding.

They didn't know how many grand words from leaders they had heard since they were young, but Li Ye was one who truly said what he did and kept the masses in his heart.

However, Lai Jiayi didn't understand why Li Ye wanted to say these things; she felt that it was inappropriate for Li Ye to say this on such an occasion.

But Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang looked at each other and smiled.

The mouths of the worker brothers could not be kept shut; the phrase "worthy of the country above, worthy of the masses below" would soon spread throughout the factory.

This time, the project introduced by the First Branch Factory exceeded expectations, and there would definitely be people accusing Ma Zhaoxian, Li Ye, and others of acting on their own initiative.

When the time comes, if anyone says the First Branch Factory is "borrowing heavily" or "blindly advancing," they can use this reason to retort.

You have such great ability, are you worthy of the country? Are you worthy of the masses?

I am worthy, you are not, so what else is there to say?