Chapter 1109: Must Grasp It Well

"A while ago, I asked if you wanted to work in Tianjin; why didn't you reply to my message?"

Li Xuewu looked at the woman in his arms. The dark night was split open by a sliver of moonlight, and her round, flawless face was vaguely visible in the haze.

Zhou Wang Yamei leaned lazily into his arms, still intoxicated by the joy just now, unwilling to wake up; she even felt like she was still flying.

Especially with Li Xuewu's large claws jumping and wandering between her neck and thighs, she couldn't help but tremble and feel a numbness, wanting to get closer to him.

"Hmm—"

She let out a soft moan that sounded like a mix of coquetry and resentment, shrinking into his arms to hide, tucking herself away, and twisting, not wanting to be teased by him, yet not wanting to leave the warmth and reliance she had missed for so long.

Finally, when the midnight bell rang downstairs, after the series of dings, she redeemed the soul that had almost been lost. She raised her head to look at the sharp-angled side profile in the dark night and under the moonlight.

She reached out and gently stroked and traced that silhouette-like side profile, her fingernails touching his temples, nose, and lips.

"I've said it before: in front of you, I am just a child who has lost her way in the forest of gems, greedy and confused."

Zhou Wang Yamei took a deep breath, regained the ability to speak, and said in a long, blurred tone: "So, stop seducing me; I'm about to lose control."

"But you also know that I am just a fish; I cannot leave the water I rely on to survive," she said with some resentment: "Steel City is my water; if I leave here, I will die."

"Of course I want to go to Tianjin; I don't care about the work, I only care about when I can see you again. Even what I already have is beyond my imagination; it is my good fortune."

Zhou Wang Yamei looked like a young girl who had just fallen in love. She looked carefully at Li Xuewu and asked: "Am I making you impatient?"

"Or, am I being a bit tactless? Maybe going to Tianjin is my best choice."

"No, the best choice is your choice, not my suggestion or wish."

Li Xuewu hugged her tightly and comforted her softly: "I just wanted to give you more choices, more room and space to think."

"I know, I know, but I didn't dare call you back, and I didn't dare write you a letter."

Zhou Wang Yamei leaned into his arms and murmured: "I was afraid that on the phone, I wouldn't be able to help but rush toward you regardless of everything."

"I was even more afraid to write you a letter, because everything I could think of and put on paper was endless longing for you, and I would miss you even more."

She opened her palm and let her five fingers cover his chest, feeling the vigorous heartbeat, as if only in this way could she be sure she wasn't dreaming and talking to the person she missed.

Similarly, Li Xuewu's five fingers also covered her chest, feeling her heartbeat.

It's just that he certainly hadn't had the experience of seeing himself in a dream and pouring out his longing to himself.

Therefore, he wasn't feeling the unreality of reality at all, but rather the size of reality; he was pinching...

Hmph—men are all no good!

"Where will the management center for the recycling station be in the future?"

Zhou Wang Yamei brought up serious business, looked at him, and asked: "Now that personnel management is with me in Steel City, and business management and financial management are in the capital, it will become increasingly inconvenient in the future."

"Is the office established in Tianjin for coordinating the supply chain system?"

She was already familiar with Li Xuewu's business structure and naturally understood what he was doing and the business he was currently laying out.

Compared to the Hongxing Factory's powerful layout model of "main trunk first, then branches," the recycling station was more like an octopus attached to the Hongxing Factory's massive body.

Branches first; following the creation of the Hongxing Factory's offices in various places, distribution offices were established one after another.

Assisting the Hongxing Factory offices in completing distribution and sales work outside the system.

At the same time, it was also expanding and laying out its own economic and trade volume.

Except for the three important functional offices in Steel City, the capital, and Tianjin, the others were just simple structures.

Once all the layouts were completed, the management institutions of the three offices would be integrated—they would inevitably be integrated in the future—and at that time, it would be a systematic and complete company.

Actually, the recycling station was already a company.

It had legal documents, business licenses, and official business seals.

It had the necessary management and cooperation institutions for business, trade, production, finance, etc.

You say the recycling station has no production units?

Don't be ridiculous; who are those people operating sewing machines working for?

Of course, of course, you would say they are working for the detention center.

However! Under this set of system frameworks, who is the detention center serving and working for?

However, in the connection system designed by Li Xuewu, although the detention center was actually working for the recycling station, it was carried out through cooperation.

The recycling station was more like a trading company, producing no goods, only acting as a porter for various goods.

The units cooperating with the detention center direction included urban detention center management units represented by the East City First Detention Center and West City Third Detention Center, as well as farm detention center management units like Chadian.

The units cooperating with the agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, and fishery direction were mainly Hongxing Village, the Wei Third Regiment reclamation area, as well as the frontier agriculture and animal husbandry reclamation area, the Northeast agriculture and animal husbandry reclamation area, and the Tianjin Aquatic Products Company.

The units cooperating with the industrial direction were mainly joint industrial units with the Hongxing Factory as the core.

The distribution and sales direction was more complex; after all, the business environments of offices in various places were different.

This was also Li Xuewu's concern about cautiously developing recycling station branch sites.

The construction of branch institutions was becoming increasingly perfect; wanting to keep a low profile while wanting to connect trade, one could only build a trade supply chain system.

That is, a product hidden under the Hongxing Factory supply chain system.

For example, the seafood supply chain.

Since they could make a fuss about seafood and open up supply and marketing joints, couldn't they do the same for beef, mutton, and various agricultural and sideline products?

Compared to the harsh preservation conditions of seafood, other products had more trade advantages.

The seafood supply chain system was just an experiment Li Xuewu did.

In the future, hidden under this system, Wu Shuping would create and manage this supply system.

Of course, for the sake of safety, the trade chain would not be open to the public, mainly for internal supply.

That is to say, beef and mutton from the frontier would be transferred to Steel City through the Hongxing Factory trade chain, and after Li Xue picked up the goods, they would be distributed to various units.

This was originally a trade activity outside the planned economy, so naturally, there was no qualification for further operation.

Therefore, the units that purchased these goods either consumed them in the canteen or used them for internal welfare procurement and sales.

If you don't feel this system is advanced, or concrete, think about where the various specialties that factory workers in the 1980s brought home came from.

It can be confirmed that a portion of this must have been supplied through effective channels.

However, the vast majority were "exchanged" between units; there was no talk of tax calculation, let alone purchase and sales records.

Then someone asked, why were the welfare products of some factories diverse, from all over the country, while others had hair-tail fish, apples, and vermicelli every year?

Very simple: these factories didn't have convenient procurement and trade channels for welfare products.

Whatever the factory's subordinate farms, or nearby farms and villages produced, that's what they distributed.

The system Li Xuewu built was to help these factories solve the problems of difficult selection and difficult procurement.

It truly achieved the goal of letting you choose from various specialties from all over the country; as long as you wanted it, and as long as I could get it, the purchase and sale could be completed.

If you say your factory's products are advanced and the quality is excellent, can you exchange products for welfare products?

Yes, the recycling station would help you contact the Hongxing Factory Trade Management Center and try to put these products in and exchange them for welfare products.

If there were no flagship products and only cash procurement was used, then it would be easier; trade could be completed directly through distribution channels.

For cities that had Hongxing Factory offices, enterprises there could have welfare products delivered to their doors.

Thanks to the vigorous development of the third industry of the capital's railway station and the cargo transportation station over the past six months, trade volume had steadily increased, and transportation profits were gratifying. The capital's railway station had already proposed further cooperation in April.

The method of cooperation was to add cargo transportation stations and coordinate the construction of railway cargo transportation stations in other major cities to continue to strengthen the cargo transportation industry.

What is being discussed here is not railway transportation, nor personal mailing or logistics.

It is a network-type institution that supplies and serves the Hongxing Factory Trade Management Center and the Hongxing Factory's offices in various major cities.

It is also the channel for the Hongxing Factory Trade Management Center to coordinate the product exchange trade of various joint trade units and the procurement of the supply chain system.

What is relatively special is Steel City; Zhou Wang Yamei mentioned to Li Xuewu that the Steel Factory had already contacted relevant railway departments to add a locomotive workshop to the freight yard.

It was different from the third-industry industrial and joint industrial freight yards in the capital.

Steel City's electronics industry, automotive industry, hardware industry, etc., all had assembly production lines.

Various parts procured through the supply chain were gathered here, and goods also had to be sent out from here.

A production base inevitably gives birth to a logistics system.

Of course, it's not called logistics now; it's called dispatching.

A convenience of the freight yard built near the Steel Factory was the railway tracks.

Trains could carry goods directly into the dispatch workshop to complete loading, unloading, and distribution.

The container manufacturing factory built in cooperation with the capital's railway station here had completed integration and was currently producing a tool for transfer—containers.

In the future, there would be very little manual work like "unloading train cars"; everything would be completed through overhead cranes, tower cranes, or mechanical cranes.

Zhou Wang Yamei was relatively concerned and actively reported to Li Xuewu because she saw that the Hongxing Factory's cargo transportation system was about to undergo important changes and opportunities.

The more advanced the Hongxing Factory's transportation and dispatch system, the greater the trade volume of the recycling station's distribution system.

Loading and unloading were getting faster and faster, and the transfer cycle was getting shorter and shorter, which meant that trade was progressing and developing.

Her eyes were very bright, as if she saw the hope that Steel City would become the industrial star on this land of Liaodong in the future.

But Li Xuewu couldn't tell her that it was still dark now, and there was still a long time before dawn.

During this time, all he could do was sleep.

Stabilize, quietly, and develop and grow safely.

Otherwise, if the situation fluctuated slightly, it would inevitably be a devastating collapse.

However, Li Xuewu also discovered that Zhou Wang Yamei was actively learning economics and trade management, which was rare.

His team was mostly "mud-legged" people, lucky ones who had changed careers halfway.

Even Sister Lou, who came from a business family, was just a half-baked person.

After deciding to go to Hong Kong, she studied intensively for more than half a year before she took office.

Even now, sitting at the helm of the massive ship "Oriental Era," she had her father and some "old immortals" supporting her from behind.

It could be said that if Sister Lou wanted to make a decision, she could effortlessly get three or more ways to handle it within ten minutes.

Don't underestimate these old guys who survived in troubled times and preserved their wealth to this day.

Even Li Xuewu didn't dare to bully them; he played with "heart-eyes," while those old guys played with "black heart-eyes."

Li Xuewu could see Zhou Wang Yamei's progress and encouraged her to persist.

Pressing Zhou Wang Yamei under him gave her enough pressure and motivation, and also made her full of spirit, high in fighting will, and working hard with a roar.

Li Xuewu naturally trusted Zhou Wang Yamei, which was why she was the first choice for operating in Tianjin.

Of course, her staying in Steel City also gave Li Xuewu more choices.

In the future, he would inevitably have to take a trip to Steel City, perhaps for three years, or maybe five.

The Hongxing Steel Group, which he planned with his own hands, would operate in regional divisions, and Liaodong would be the group's production sector, which was also Li Xuewu's weakest position.

Working at the Steel Factory was both a form of progress and a form of training.

He would eventually have to take charge of his own affairs, and on the basis of the already laid-out industrial production sector, raise this building up.

When the Hongxing Steel Group's industrial production sector in Liaodong was successfully built, Li Xuewu would no longer have any weaknesses.

Responsible for safety management, he had received recognition from the local area and the garrison.

Responsible for discipline inspection and supervision, he had received recognition from the city and the factory.

Responsible for trade coordination, he had presided over the creation of the Trade Management Center.

Responsible for third-industry industrial work, he had created the third industry and joint industry.

Responsible for organizational coordination, he had created and promoted enterprise management systems, and presided over the construction of the grand goals and implementation plans for enterprise promotion and group-based development.

In the process of working, he had received recognition and commendations at all levels and in all fields.

Now, he was following Li Huai De to train and learn comprehensive management and integrated management work.

In the future, he would officially start the comprehensive work of the industrial production sector based on the May 1st Labor Model, and he would also achieve a perfect success, completing his final trial.

Zhou Wang Yamei didn't want to leave Steel City, a large part of the reason being that she was waiting for Li Xuewu, waiting for Li Xuewu to come to Steel City to work.

She wanted to watch this man walk from here toward success, toward a height she couldn't reach.

She didn't want to, and couldn't, miss such an opportunity.

When Li Xuewu came to Steel City, he would inevitably vigorously develop production and trade economy, and would also increase the construction of the recycling station system in Liaodong and the entire Northeast.

In three years, Zhou Wang Yamei would have enough support from him to complete the penetration and improvement of the entire recycling station system.

Building a solid, safe, convenient, and healthy supply chain system.

People have career ambitions; no one wants to stay at home and be a "waste."

Don't talk about "I'd rather not go to work and sleep in bed all day."

If you were given such a life, you wouldn't persist for long.

It's just standing on the side of exhaustion, thinking about the other side.

To be honest, how many "second-generation rich" do you see sleeping in bed all day?

Zhou Wang Yamei was also a person, although a woman, and a woman with a child.

But precisely because of this, she wanted to use her own efforts to give her child an independent sky.

This psychology was actually quite complex; she didn't actually lack living materials, nor did she lack money to raise the child; she lived better than most people in this world.

However, this money came from Li Xuewu, came from the work he provided.

In the hospital, she had long heard that even the vice president next door had an accident.

If she had stayed in the hospital, she probably wouldn't have been able to escape.

It was precisely because she was an ordinary person without organization or connections that no one came to trouble her.

Especially with the care of the Steel Factory's security department, she lived even more peacefully.

Once this peace lasted for a long time, it would become a kind of motivation, and also a kind of burden.

She had to move; she couldn't just rely on Li Xuewu to pay.

Therefore, helping Li Xuewu achieve success within her capabilities became a way to regain her dignity, and also to provide a sky for her son's future.

Fu Zhidong didn't have the surname Li after all, and the child still remembered his father.

Although he often missed Uncle Li, he was slowly growing up.

How to face Li Xuewu in the future, and how to face the relationship between them, became a problem Zhou Wang Yamei had to solve.

Her idea was that she had lost herself in this war with Li Xuewu, but she couldn't let her son lose his true self.

When he grew up, whether he wanted dignity, or family affection, or understanding, it would all be up to him; let the son choose for himself.

What Zhou Wang Yamei could do was give him this opportunity.

Thinking this way wasn't actually complicated; Qin Huairu was the same.

It was just that she had self-knowledge and couldn't pay with her whole heart like Zhou Wang Yamei, let alone be calm about everything for Li Xuewu.

Therefore, what she got was already what she wanted but didn't dare to want, so she had no delusions.

As for Banggeng, that was a different matter from Fu Zhidong.

The relationship between Qin Huairu and Li Xuewu was purely a matter of love between a man and a woman, without a shred of ulterior motives.

She didn't dare to have ulterior motives, so regarding the child's future, she was more inclined to rely on herself.

The factory had a training school, and she wanted to send Banggeng to school; in the future, he would enter the factory, and under her care, he wouldn't live too badly.

How did Zhou Wang Yamei arrange for her son?

He must learn and have culture; no matter what he did in the future, even if it was farming.

She wouldn't let her son farm; after helping Li Xuewu complete the industrial planning and layout, there would always be a harvest.

She would leave this part to her son, becoming the capital for him to fly independently in the future.

And she, in the end, belonged to Li Xuewu.

"Uncle! Hahaha! Woo—"

Fu Zhidong was still young and didn't understand the idiom "extreme joy begets sorrow," but he was in that state now.

How could he not be surprised that the uncle he had missed for so long suddenly appeared in the morning?

Li Xuewu smiled, lifted the quilt, patted it, and greeted: "Come."

Fu Zhidong, standing at the door, pouted his little mouth, ran into the guest room with a *deng-deng-deng* sound, and climbed onto the bed in a leap.

"Uncle—I've missed you!"

"Hmm, hmm, I know; I've missed you too," Li Xuewu smiled, held his godson in his arms, helped him wipe his tears, and asked: "Did you not know I was coming?"

"No, Mom didn't tell me."

Fu Zhidong looked back at his mother standing at the door, feeling a bit resentful, yet also a bit embarrassed.

"I didn't tell you because I was afraid you wouldn't be able to wait and wouldn't have the heart to do your homework."

Li Xuewu didn't get up early in the morning, but Zhou Wang Yamei got up very early.

She was afraid that Fu Zhidong would wake up and be scared if he couldn't find her, and she still had to prepare breakfast.

The two chatted very late last night and were busy until very late; Li Xuewu slept in, but she was radiant.

She took the clothes from the cabinet and placed them at the foot of the bed, instructing Fu Zhidong to change his clothes himself.

Watching his mother leave, Fu Zhidong seriously explained to his uncle: "Even if I knew you were coming, I wouldn't delay my homework."

"That's good; next time Uncle comes, I'll call you, okay?"

Li Xuewu reached out and high-fived his godson, then asked with a smile: "Do you have to go to school today?"

"Yes... I have to go to school," Fu Zhidong asked with some dejection: "I can't not go to school."

"Hmm, I understand; I have to go to work too."

Li Xuewu touched his godson's little head and said: "How about I take you to school this morning?"

"Good—! I want you to take me to school!"

Fu Zhidong shouted in surprise, but then asked nervously: "Then, then Uncle, can you come pick me up from school tonight?"

"Hmm... that's hard to say."

Li Xuewu lay back against the head of the bed, pursed his lips, and said: "You also know that Uncle is very busy on business in Steel City; I might have work tonight."

Seeing the disappointment in his godson's eyes, Li Xuewu patted his little shoulder and said: "But you can go to bed a little later and wait for me to get off work."

"Then you won't leave tonight?"

What Fu Zhidong was actually worried about was this; he was afraid that the time he spent with his uncle would only be a short morning.

In a child's eyes, time is always longer, and it's never enough.

A heart discovering the world always has a process of slowly getting familiar.

Li Xuewu nodded seriously: "I will come back tonight; it's just uncertain how late I'll be."

"Then I'll wait for you; I'll definitely wait for you."

Fu Zhidong also nodded very seriously and said: "I have a lot of things I want to tell you."

"No problem, we'll talk slowly."

Li Xuewu patted the bed and said: "Then, shall we start from changing clothes, washing up, and going downstairs to eat together?"

"Good—!"

Fu Zhidong stood up from the bed and found the clothes his mother had placed at the foot of the bed to change into.

Li Xuewu also changed out of his pajamas; it was the same set of work clothes as yesterday, just the underwear had been washed and dried.

The two of them, as if competing, quickly finished changing clothes and washing their faces.

Zhou Wang Yamei looked at the two of them in the bathroom—one big, one small, each with a toothbrush standing in front of the mirror—and couldn't help but laugh.

And Fu Zhidong looked at his godfather and also smiled with narrowed eyes.

Downstairs, Zhou Wang Yamei had prepared breakfast and even specially boiled eggs for the two of them.

Fu Zhidong ate one every day; the extra one was to supplement Li Xuewu.

Of course, Li Xuewu felt that this thing didn't supplement as much as he paid out?

They had just sat down at the table when they heard the sound of a car outside the courtyard.

Li Xuewu's car hadn't arrived yet; it should be Old Biaozi, who had made an appointment yesterday.

"Hehe, Wu Ge, eating?"

Old Biaozi came in carrying two large carp, which Zhou Wang Yamei arranged in a large basin.

"Caught in the net at the pier this morning; I picked the two biggest ones."

"Fine, at least you know not to come empty-handed."

Li Xuewu waved his hand, signaling him to eat breakfast together.

Old Biaozi didn't stand on ceremony, went to the kitchen to find bowls and chopsticks, and said to Zhou Wang Yamei with a smile: "Don't mind me, Sister Zhou; I came here on purpose to eat breakfast."

"I knew you were coming, so I brought your share."

Zhou Wang Yamei served him rice porridge, took him a steamed bun, and instructed: "Don't bring things next time; we can't finish them."

"How is your wife?"

She explained to Li Xuewu: "When I came back the day before yesterday, she said her appetite was uncomfortable."

"It's fine, it's normal; it's just a normal reaction to pregnancy."

Old Biaozi didn't pay much attention and took a sip of porridge, then explained: "Found a doctor to help her look; there's really nothing wrong."

After speaking, he teased Fu Zhidong and asked Li Xuewu: "Wu Ge, is everything fine at home?"

"Hmm, everything is fine; don't worry."

Li Xuewu nodded, looked at him, and said: "Do your work, but also take care of your family; it's not easy to follow you to the Northeast from thousands of miles away."

"Understood, don't worry; I have a plan."

Old Biaozi nodded and said: "Just happened that you came; I want to talk to you about the ships and the recycling station."

"Eat first; we'll talk after eating."

Li Xuewu pushed the stir-fried dishes on the table toward him and signaled: "Eat something hot."

"Your time is tight; I'd better talk while I eat."

Old Biaozi joked, and then really started to introduce while eating.

It was mainly about the Dongfeng Shipping, the local recycling station in Steel City, the industrial layout in the Northeast, and the layout in Yingcheng.

None of Dongfeng Shipping's ships were in Steel City, let alone Yingcheng; now they only ran the special line from Tianjin Port to Hong Kong.

Just this special line—27 thousand-ton cargo ships couldn't even keep up.

Part of the business came from the Chinese-Polish company, and the other part came from Dongfeng Trade, in which Fook Yuen Hong held shares.

This trading company was actually also part of the Oriental Era system, just operated as a joint venture to facilitate trade between the Hongxing Factory and Steel City.

Dongfeng Shipping's management port was in Steel City, but the port had long been empty, with only two newly purchased 200-ton cargo ships used for transportation and training.

Now, the Hongxing Factory had a shipyard in Yingcheng and also had an outlet to the sea, so all heavy equipment was more inclined to be transported by rail to Yingcheng Port to be loaded onto ships.

Therefore, Steel City was becoming increasingly "chicken-rib-like" (tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw away) for Dongfeng Shipping.

Comrade Comrade Ji Weidong had coordinated with Old Biaozi, wanting to transfer the business relationship of Dongfeng Shipping to Hong Kong.

But Old Biaozi had concerns about the control of the fleet after the transfer, as well as the exchanges of inland business.

So, he wanted to ask Li Xuewu where the fleet management port should be placed.

Li Xuewu ate a steamed bun, thought for a moment, and said: "Where it's placed isn't important; who manages it is important. Who do you want to arrange to manage the ships?"

"If it's moved to Hong Kong, I definitely won't be able to manage it; the whip is too far to reach."

Old Biaozi frowned: "But as for who to manage it, I really can't find a suitable candidate for a moment."

"Unless I ask Third Uncle to take it on, but I'm afraid he'll be too busy."

"Don't always think about pulling everything into your own bowl; you have to let others eat too."

Li Xuewu saw that he was only focused on talking, so he helped him pick up some vegetables and said: "If business needs it, and Comrade Comrade Ji Weidong needs the coordination power of the fleet, then give it to him."

"Brother, you mean..." Old Biaozi hesitated and asked: "Give it all to him?"

"Right, you said you couldn't find anyone to manage it, so it's better not to manage it at all and let him manage it."

Li Xuewu pointed to the table in front of Fu Zhidong, signaling him not to listen to the conversation and to eat well.

He then said to Old Biaozi: "He has connections at Tianjin Port and operates fleets and port affairs in Hong Kong; he is a professional. What are you afraid of?"

"Before, we were responsible for operation, and they were responsible for supervision; now we can completely swap them."

Li Xuewu pointed his finger and taught him: "You only need to tell Sister Lou and arrange for finance to follow up; now we are the supervisors."

"Of course, what I'm asking you to hand over is the business coordination power, not the ownership."

He instructed Old Biaozi: "Keep an eye on the personnel power for me too; all crew members and captains must be held in our hands so they know whose rice bowl they are holding."

"Exactly, Hong Kong has a perfect maritime education and training system. During the economic crisis these past two years, arrange for our people to rotate for training and learning."

"Understood; I'll discuss it with Third Uncle and Sister Lou later, and then talk to Comrade Comrade Ji Weidong."

Old Biaozi had a plan in his heart and a direction, so he continued to introduce the business work.

The construction and management work of the Steel City recycling station was basically becoming perfect, with no difficulties.

Relying on the Hongxing Factory trade management system, after more than a year, it had basically achieved regional operation.

Now many ordinary staff members of the recycling station were locals from Steel City. In their hearts, the impression of the recycling station was just a collective-type unit.

More than a dozen trucks were responsible for transporting materials to units in the city, or receiving materials from some production units and transporting them to the Steel Factory or the pier.

These surface-level basic tasks were naturally completed by ordinary staff, and they didn't need to know anything.

But the core business was still in the hands of Old Biaozi, plus Old Four Quan Yongcheng and Old Five Guan Yongqiang helping, so there was no difficulty.

The Jicheng recycling station burst into new trade vitality this year, mainly relying on forestry, completely opening up trade channels for timber, dried fruits, mountain goods, and agricultural and sideline products.

Xilin had completely stood firm there, and with the support of Li Xuewu's second uncle, she could open up well in forestry and related industries.

Mainly because Da Qiangzi was working very hard; he had to struggle out of that bureau in Jicheng, otherwise Li Xuewu could trap him for a lifetime.

As early as the New Year, Old Biaozi and Xilin returned to the capital one after another, and in their conversations with Li Xuewu, they expressed their desire to develop in other cities in the Northeast.

Li Xuewu's opinion was to be steady and step-by-step.

The two of them were doing very well now, cooperating with each other, and there were distribution points in Fengcheng and Bingcheng.

Of course, it wasn't done by the recycling station's own people, but by finding cooperative personnel.

They wouldn't be given core content, only responsible for distribution and acquisition, which was similar to a cooperative nature.

Because the current situation was uncontrollable, these people weren't worth trusting either.

Establishing a distribution and acquisition network was conducive to handling orders in the trade chain on a larger scale.

But Old Biaozi thought a bit more, and when reporting to Li Xuewu, he couldn't help but smile mischievously.

"I've been paying attention to Yingcheng Shipping; I estimate that after formal shipbuilding starts this year, we can come up with a speedboat project next year."

Old Biaozi said: "I think that speedboat thing, even if it's cheap, isn't something an ordinary person can afford."

"You asked me to look for such characters in the Northeast; I thought it would be better to cultivate them myself."

He explained: "Some people have the guts and the channels, but no money."

"I'm currently arranging for them to help me handle some small distribution orders, or help me collect some goods, which both saves my time and costs and brings them profits."

Old Biaozi had a thief's light in his eyes and said: "Start small, and slowly it will grow big. When the source of goods is in our hands, control is convenient, and use is also convenient."

"When they have money, and we have ships, we'll sell the ships to them, collect this part of the money back, and let them help us go to sea to make money again."

"We're all good friends; yours is mine, and mine is mine; what's given to you will eventually have to be returned to me."

He laughed *hehehe* and said: "I've been pondering this for a long time and am slowly experimenting. When there's a certain amount, I'll tell you."

Zhou Wang Yamei glanced at him with a smile and said to Fu Zhidong: "Eat; don't listen to Uncle Biao's words, be careful not to learn bad things."

"How can this be called learning bad things?"

Old Biaozi finished talking about work and also ate breakfast in large mouthfuls, winked at Fu Zhidong, and said: "I'll teach you how to make a slingshot to shoot sparrows later."

"I don't play with slingshots; I have a gun."

Fu Zhidong turned to look at his godfather and asked: "Uncle, when can I play with your gun?"

Uncle's gun can't be played with by you; last night your mom... your mom specifically instructed that this pistol shouldn't be touched by you, be careful not to learn bad things.

When sending Fu Zhidong to school in the morning, the kid was very happy; he stood at the entrance of the nursery class and didn't want to go in, just wanting to stay with him a little longer.

It was the teacher who came out to call him that he said goodbye to him.

Thinking that this child was growing up and becoming lively, he would think of his three-month-old son.

Would Li Ning also be as talkative and cheerful as Fu Zhidong in the future?

He liked children, and Dong Wenxue liked children too.

The itinerary yesterday was relatively tight, and the time the two of them spent together after dinner was too short.

Mainly because Li Huai De came, and Dong Wenxue had been reporting work.

Li Xuewu accompanied him to listen, and also raised opinions and questions.

The three of them, with their secretaries, talked very late in the reception room, otherwise they wouldn't have kept Zhou Wang Yamei waiting.

This morning, Li Xuewu had to accompany Li Huai De to take a look around the industry and construction sites.

First, they went to see the newly completed metallurgical workshop, which was a project newly invested in to deal with the smelting of special steel.

No matter how little Li Huai De understood the business, he understood the importance of special steel.

Automotive manufacturing, hardware industry, shipbuilding, electronics manufacturing, etc., all needed to use it.

"Metallurgical industry is the foundation of our future Hongxing Steel Group, and it is also an upstream industry."

Li Huai De wore a safety helmet, stood outside the workshop, and pointed out: "Must grasp it well, do it well, make good steel and good materials for all mid-to-downstream industries."

When visiting the automotive manufacturing factory, the research team listened to the introduction of the person in charge.

The production lines for jeeps and sedans were fully prepared, just waiting for the engineers to guide the debugging, and were doing the final finishing work.

The motorcycle assembly line was simpler compared to the automotive assembly line, and the workshop scale couldn't even compare, but in the eyes of the research team, it was more important.

Although cars were also two-thirds cheaper, even the cheapest car couldn't compare to the ease of selling motorcycles.

A 500-yuan motorcycle—really looking forward to what it will be like when this thing hits the market.

The motorcycle production line came from behind and surpassed the automotive production line, with faster construction progress.

When debugging the equipment, they were already trying to produce in process experiments.

Of course, the number of units wasn't large, and it was mainly based on experiments.

But being able to see the actual vehicle roll off the line, Li Huai De was still very happy.

He also asked the person in charge about the cooperation with the Second Automotive Works and whether there would be any difficulties in producing buses.

The person in charge explained that with the training of the automotive assembly line and the motorcycle assembly line, it wasn't that difficult to build a small bus production line.

The expert team had been working here for a long time, and the people from the Second Automotive Works had already entered the field to start work.

What the Hongxing Factory lacked least in Steel City was industrial land; on the way here, Wang Lu had said that as long as the Hongxing Factory wanted to build a factory, they would give as much land as they wanted.

The land around the Hongxing Factory, as long as it wasn't planned, had been planned.

Therefore, what could be seen was that a large piece of land within sight was under construction.

This year, the Hongxing Factory invested a large amount of funds here to rebuild the industrial system, and the effect and influence caused were very large.

Li Huai De watched very seriously and asked very key questions, mainly asking about difficulties and time.

Seeing the leader's importance, the persons in charge of several projects all seriously made guarantees that they would complete the preparatory work as soon as possible according to the time.

Afterwards, the research team also visited hardware industry, military industry, electrical industry, etc.

In these workshops and construction sites, Li Huai De truly went deep into the front line; although he didn't understand, he could understand when listening to reports.

In addition to making clear requirements for project progress and quality, he also put forward opinions on staff training and education.

Finally, he emphasized construction safety and operational safety.

Wearing new clothes, you can't walk the old path.

Reshaping the industrial system in Steel City naturally required doing the best from the production of the first part for industrial safety and production safety.

Previously, Li Huai De didn't focus on this area, but later Li Xuewu focused on it, started the work, and achieved results, so other leaders also focused on it.

Now, as long as the Hongxing Factory holds a production work meeting, it must mention safe operation.

Why?

It's not how much the superior leaders value it, but if you value production, you will get the support of the staff.

This point is beyond doubt; it can be seen from Li Xuewu's prestige among the staff masses.

Factory leaders and competent leaders who need mass foundation even more naturally have to "follow the trend."

Focusing on safe operation doesn't lose anything, but it will form an atmosphere where everyone attaches importance to it.

Li Xuewu has dealt with many cadres who neglected production safety; this string in the Hongxing Factory can be considered to have been tightened by him.

Whoever touches it dies; it is unforgivable.

Especially for production accidents, Li Xuewu wants to urge discipline inspection and security to follow up, focus on investigating dereliction of duty and negligence, and even more so to investigate criminal responsibility.

Previously, if you asked a squad leader or section chief if it was okay to violate regulations to speed up progress, they would say it was fine and to just do it.

But now you ask them—if they don't kick you, it's considered you're tall.

How long did they struggle to become a squad leader or section chief? If you violate regulations, they all lose everything, and even the workshop director's administrative level is downgraded.

For a whole day, Li Huai De led the research team to watch on-site.

When they came back in the evening, everyone's leather shoes were covered with dirt and mud, their white shirts weren't white anymore, and their black pants were covered in dust.

Everyone stood in the lobby of the guest house and looked at each other, then all laughed *hahaha*. ===== CHAPTER 1110 =====