Chapter 835

"Knock, knock, knock~"

In the morning, at 8:30, Lai Jiayi knocked on Li Ye's office door with a beaming smile, and then she saw Li Ye burying his head in comparing a stack of employee housing registration forms.

Lai Jiayi's heart sank, because Li Ye was using the materials she had submitted a few days ago to compare them with the housing situation that had been reprinted and summarized later.

She knew what tricks were in the materials she had "screened" herself; although the list of three hundred and seventy or eighty people all seemed to have sufficient reasons to apply for housing, such tricks were afraid of careful comparison.

For example, if you say you are miserable because you broke a leg, then how were the others in wheelchairs screened out?

You say you are selling yourself to bury your father, then what about the person who is selling themselves to bury their whole family?

So now that Li Ye was using the data information of all employees in the factory for comparison, he would likely be able to identify her "connections."

Lai Jiayi looked at the employee registration forms on Li Ye's desk, and there seemed to be names marked with red pens; she couldn't help but feel irritable. Everyone sees each other every day; isn't it better to leave a way out for others? If you block my people, won't I block your people in the future?

"Deputy Factory Director Li, busy? The main factory notified us to go over for the quarterly summary meeting! Are you ready?"

"What is there to prepare?"

Li Ye looked at his watch, stood up, and walked out: "As the saying goes, one white covers a hundred uglinesses; the efficiency of our First Branch Factory is there, so isn't it enough to just accept the praise with peace of mind?"

Lai Jiayi smiled and said: "That's hard to say; the main factory leaders have high expectations for us, so we must strictly demand of ourselves and not easily become complacent..."

"Forget it!"

Li Ye said while locking the door: "They only invested two hundred thousand in us at the beginning; how high could their expectations be?"

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Lai Jiayi was stunned and didn't pick up on Li Ye's words.

Li Ye's words didn't even need to be savored carefully to make people feel his strong dissatisfaction with the main factory leaders.

If Li Ye were an ordinary worker, that would be one thing; there were plenty of workers who cursed the factory director all day long, but Li Ye was a young, promising management cadre with a bright future.

For a management cadre to say such grumbling words in front of others could be said to be a major taboo.

Especially since Lai Jiayi was clearly from the main factory's camp; was Li Ye's meaning to let Lai Jiayi go and snitch?

【Report to the leader: Li Ye harbors resentment toward you; you must never promote him!】

Lai Jiayi frowned and began to judge whether Li Ye was digging a pit for her again.

The welfare housing matter had already made her feel like she had fallen into a pit; should she do this kind of snitching and reporting?

But Lai Jiayi didn't know that Li Ye didn't have so many twists and turns this time; he was purely not pretending anymore.

Because yesterday, Ma Zhaoxian had sent a message to Li Ye that the main factory was going to launch a rigorous discussion on the First Branch Factory's "Five-Year Development Plan,"

especially since this project introduction to Japan had one more project than originally planned, which gave the other side a handle of "acting on one's own initiative," and the two sides would inevitably have to spar and flex their muscles.

This was like the stage where the big boss and the second-in-command show their cards; pretending was useless.

Ma Zhaoxian wanted to challenge the position of the top leader, so as Ma Zhaoxian's "direct subordinate," what was Li Ye pretending for?

Arriving at the main factory conference room, Li Ye saw that there weren't many people present.

"Oh, today's situation is a bit special, because when the quarterly meeting was held last week, the two factory directors of the First Branch Factory were not at home, so today we are holding a separate small meeting to discuss matters related to the First Branch Factory..."

Alright! This was a Hongmen Banquet prepared specifically for the First Branch Factory; no wonder Lai Jiayi's smile was so cheerful when she called Li Ye just now!

"First, let's talk about the various achievements of the First Branch Factory in the third quarter of this year, which are worthy of our affirmation; the profit handed over increased by thirty-one percent compared to the second quarter..."

"But some problems have also been exposed, mainly that internal spending is too high, unnecessary expenses are too many, and there is no open-source and cost-cutting, with various phenomena of waste emerging one after another..."

"Let me interrupt."

Ma Zhaoxian interrupted the Great Factory Director's speech very impolitely and asked seriously and directly: "May I ask what this 'internal spending is too high' and 'phenomena of waste emerging one after another' specifically refers to? What is the basis for this?"

The Great Factory Director glanced at Ma Zhaoxian and said coldly: "Deputy Manager Ma, please do not interrupt my speech; later I will have people provide evidence for these problems."

"Fine!"

Ma Zhaoxian agreed very calmly, but everyone present could faintly smell the gunpowder between the two.

From the beginning of its preparation, the First Branch Factory was under Ma Zhaoxian's charge, and later several major development moves, as well as this project introduced from Japan, were all led by Ma Zhaoxian.

Now that the Great Factory Director said the First Branch Factory's spending was too high and waste was too much, he was actually accusing Ma Zhaoxian in disguise.

If it were a normal situation, Ma Zhaoxian, as a deputy, should have sincerely accepted the criticism and questioning first, and then either patiently explained these accusations himself or pulled a subordinate out to take the blame.

A higher rank suppresses people; no matter how angry you are, you must maintain your posture and maneuver within the rules.

But Ma Zhaoxian had opposed it the first time, and the consequence of this was that all the firepower was drawn onto himself.

After all, Lu Zhizhang and Li Ye's level was still a bit low, especially Li Ye, who had no way to stand up to the Great Factory Director's pressure face-to-face.

This is the so-called rule; young people with shallow seniority in the unit are naturally at a disadvantage of being suppressed, and if no one supports you, it's really suffocating.

After the Great Factory Director stated the outline, the details were narrated by Xiao Jingang, who was responsible for discipline supervision within the unit.

"According to the masses' reactions, we believe that the First Branch Factory has at least three serious waste situations. First is the First Branch Factory's shuttle bus problem; clearly there are high-quality and inexpensive domestic large buses, why spend two or three times the money to buy imported buses?"

"Second, the First Branch Factory only has three thousand people, so why is the cafeteria's monthly consumption higher than the main factory's? And significantly higher?"

"Third, when the First Branch Factory built the employee building, why didn't it use the state-owned construction company in the capital, but instead used a private construction team from out of town? Building ten buildings in three months—is this building tofu-dregs projects?"

Xiao Jingang stated the three major crimes in one breath and then looked at Lu Zhizhang and Li Ye.

But the two of them always felt that the other's eyes were a bit empty, far less gloomy and cold than before.

This trip to Japan made Xiao Jingang see through many things; Secretary Guo being able to participate in the 2.8 million investment was definitely Gu Jianqi's direct subordinate, and what kind of end did he meet in the end?

Because of Guan Liang's matter, Xiao Jingang's official career was already bleak; was it still worth it to form a deadly feud with Ma Zhaoxian's faction?

After listening to Xiao Jingang's words, Lu Zhizhang explained unhurriedly: "The matter of us buying large buses was voted on and passed by the First Branch Factory's general assembly.

Besides, a unit's shuttle bus represents the unit's image; at that time, our First Branch Factory's profit exceeded the original plan by a lot, so we raised the procurement standard for the shuttle bus..."

"The reason why the First Branch Factory's cafeteria consumption is higher than the main factory's is also because the First Branch Factory's work is performance-based, so the workers' enthusiasm for labor is very high.

Many people volunteer to work overtime, working more than ten hours a day; with such a high labor volume, it is only right and proper for the First Branch Factory to subsidize them a little more..."

"As for the third point..."

Lu Zhizhang frowned and asked with confusion: "The construction team that built the employee building for us is a collective construction company from Pengcheng. According to 'Pengcheng Speed,' it is very normal to build a building in three months! How did it get the label of a tofu-dregs project?"

Xiao Jingang narrowed his eyes and looked at Wu Kezhang Kan of the main factory's Housing Management Section: "Old Kan, explain it to Little Lu!"

【Are you the big lazy person ordering the small lazy person?】

Wu Kezhang Kan cursed in his heart, but still kept a straight face and said: "I know 'Pengcheng Speed,' but we are in the north, and the temperature is much lower than in Pengcheng. Now it is after autumn; if the buildings are built so fast, can the cement dry thoroughly? And..."

Wu Kezhang Kan looked at Li Ye and said: "And those construction workers are all Dongshan people, not Pengcheng people. Some employees reported to us that it is 'hanging a sheep's head to sell dog meat' 【false advertising】..."

Li Ye raised his head and looked at Wu Kezhang Kan coldly.

The construction team members were indeed mostly Dongshan people, and the leader was indeed Li Ye's fellow villager from Qingshui, but were you saying that I, Li Ye, was using public office for private gain?

However, before Li Ye could speak, others said: "Oh, the First Branch Factory is developing too fast, the management team is not fully configured, and it is understandable to have some omissions. Now the First Branch Factory's business is getting bigger and bigger, and expanding the management team is imminent.

I propose! We should add a Real Estate Section and a Discipline Inspection Section to the First Branch Factory. The production task is so heavy, we should also add a full-time deputy factory director for production management to share the burden of the two factory directors..."

"This proposal is good, I agree."

"I also agree. A big factory of three thousand people, the burden is too heavy; always letting Little Lu and Little Li handle it is very heartless..."

Li Ye: "."

Lu Zhizhang: "."

【Damn it, you want to share the burden for us? You guys are actually quite nice~】

Li Ye turned his head to look at Lai Jiayi, thinking that no wonder she had such a beaming smile when she saw him this morning!