Chapter 1206: United Industrial Newspaper

"It's cold, is it hard to run back and forth?"

Li Xuewu picked up the teacup and took a sip, looked at the performance on the stage, and asked softly.

Zhou Xiaobai was also watching intently, and after being asked this, she was slightly stunned for a second.

Turning her head to see that it was him asking, she replied: "No, it's okay."

"You don't like me returning to Beijing often?"

"Speak properly—"

Li Xuewu glanced at her sideways, drinking black tea in his hand, and adding green tea to it, the taste was mixed.

"Hee hee—"

Zhou Xiaobai didn't care about his words, her body tilted slightly, leaning on his arm.

"Is rehearsing this play for touring?"

"Consider it internal exchange, there's no touring."

Li Xuewu took advantage of the action of drinking tea to nudge his arm, wanting her to sit upright.

But Zhou Xiaobai relied on him, her head moving with the movement of his arm.

"Performing at your factory's theater?"

She asked with a lazy voice: "It's spreading in the city, saying your factory is rich and imposing."

"If you're not rich, you can't be imposing?"

Li Xuewu's words pointed out the purpose of forming the literary and artistic propaganda team.

Of course, it also pointed out the core goal of acquiring and rectifying the five theaters.

There is an old saying, a big tree attracts the wind.

This tree is big, you don't need to show off yourself, this wind comes at you.

The Red Star Factory is also like this; fast development speed, high welfare benefits, strong production capacity, wide foreign trade...

With the blessing of so many excellent and dazzling achievements, if there is no channel to grasp the voice, it will be passive.

Li Huai De and Li Xuewu's investment and support in the literary and artistic propaganda team have the same purpose.

The factory management committee has discussed the opinions and suggestions on strengthening the construction of the literary and artistic propaganda team several times.

Therefore, the literary and artistic propaganda team expanded from the original eighty-plus people to more than one hundred.

At the beginning of this year, it was reinforced to more than three hundred people.

Now, after the second round of reinforcement, the Red Star Factory's literary and artistic propaganda team has reached a scale of more than five hundred people.

This literary and artistic propaganda team of more than five hundred people corresponds to the Red Star Factory, which is about to reach ninety thousand workers and has multiple branch factories and eighteen key city offices.

The Red Star Factory acquired and rectified five theaters in Beijing, which is an expansion and upgrade of literary and artistic work.

This year's literary and artistic propaganda work is mainly based in Beijing, steady and steady, striving for learning and exercise.

During the just-concluded National Day holiday, the literary and artistic propaganda team organized more than ten performances, and each small team went to various offices and branch factories across the country for comfort performances.

Next, until next year, this situation will become normalized.

Four major industrial bases including Beijing, Jinmen, Steel City, and Fengcheng must form a literary and artistic propaganda front.

Based on the interconnection and interaction of the four places, with the Beijing Theater as the standard, Red Star Theaters must also be built in the other three cities to show the style of the Red Star Factory to more urban residents.

After the trial of the National Day, the literary and artistic propaganda team all returned to Beijing and began the final preparations.

They will officially start literary and artistic performances in the five theaters in Beijing in November, which is next month.

The forms of the programs are diverse, including songs, dances, quyi, drama, acrobatics, instrumental music, acrobatics, etc.

More than five hundred people, it is impossible to arrange them all together, but there will be opportunities for exercise.

Stage performance experience is a special requirement for literary and artistic practitioners.

Just like looking for a job in later generations, it requires work experience.

Actors who haven't been on stage and haven't participated in formal performances don't count as actors.

Some young people have learned for more than twenty years, but when they are about to go on stage, they are frightened, and they can never go up again in their lives.

The Red Star Factory's literary and artistic propaganda team not only recruits qualified actors but also searches for and cultivates actors with foundations among the workers.

Especially after the team grew, this kind of work and activity to enrich the spare-time cultural life of employees must be done.

The Red Star Theater does not arrange program performances every day, Saturday night, Sunday all day.

Calculated, there are only four shows.

The programs must be guaranteed to be fresh, the five theaters take turns, and the actors must also take turns.

The requirements Li Xuewu put forward to Zhang Li and Wang Yajuan are that the programs must be adapted and promoted based on the excellent deeds of the Red Star Factory, and the core ideology must be absolutely correct.

Secondly, the repertoire performed must be approved before it can be performed, especially to obtain relevant audit materials.

This point is very important; the factory propaganda section even organized a special team to be responsible for this work.

In the five theaters, one big and four small, the logistics department formed a theater management department, and the literary and artistic propaganda team formed a propaganda group.

The theater is managed by the logistics department, the performance is responsible by the literary and artistic propaganda team, and the finance is managed by the finance department.

That's right, the theater is to be operated by selling tickets, and there will absolutely be no behavior of giving tickets or gifting tickets.

From the perspective of human nature, that is artistic suicide.

"Didn't sing well, please give more advice."

Mai Xiaotian hadn't had time to finish removing his makeup, walked out from the backstage, and bowed to Li Xuewu politely.

Li Xuewu smiled and reached out, saying: "I listen with appreciation, although I don't have any artistic literacy."

"Thank you—"

Mai Xiaotian shook his hand with emotion, saying gratefully: "I never thought I would have this day to go on stage!"

"There will be, your artistic level is very high, it's really a pity not to perform on stage."

Li Xuewu shook his hand and said: "Sing well, sing out the level, sing out the height."

"Hey! Listen to you—"

Mai Xiaotian couldn't stop his tears from falling; he was happy and excited.

He hadn't performed on stage for two years, and he thought his life would be like this.

Never thought that happiness would come so suddenly.

Returning from Steel City, he received Yu Li's notice, saying she wanted to invite him to form a club drama club.

What does this mean?

There is no one in the club who can sing, only the two of them, and a pair of students who are not students.

Now his lover is taking care of his daughter in Steel City, leaving only him, what to sing with two students?

From Yu Li's hands, he received the proof material, which was about approving the Dongfeng Club to form a literary and artistic propaganda drama club.

He didn't react for a while, and after Yu Li explained it clearly in a roundabout way, he couldn't stand still immediately.

He wanted to call his wife in Steel City, but remembered the cuteness of his granddaughter, and didn't know what to do for a while.

After reacting, he was afraid that his identity, and whether singing on stage at this time would cause trouble for the club, he didn't sleep all night holding that material.

After Yu Li went to work the next day, he came to the office early and asked her to make the decision.

What should be reported should be reported, what should be explained should be explained; Yu Li was also very clear about his concerns after listening.

Too many people have been hurt in these two years; it's no wonder Mai Xiaotian is worried, she felt her heart ache just listening to it.

It's just that there was Li Xuewu's words early on, and she seemed much calmer, telling Mai Xiaotian Li Xuewu's words.

This drama club must have formal procedures, must have literary and artistic exchange program documents, and the identities of all drama club actors must comply with regulations.

Yu Li relayed Li Xuewu's words and reminded Mai Xiaotian with her own understanding that since the club's door was open to them, he should also be cautious in selecting and employing people.

His problem is not a matter at all in front of the club; those people still dare to challenge the authority of the powerful department?

She told Mai Xiaotian that the club management office hoped he would come forward and invite some masters to join.

Those who can live until now and stay in Beijing actually have nothing to do; the strongest wind and waves have passed.

As long as there is no problem of principle, returning to the stage through the Red Star Factory's relationship, if anyone wants to find trouble, they have to pass the Red Star Factory's level.

Who dares to challenge the iron fist of the big brother?

The people who sing are not important, what is important is what play they sing.

Li Xuewu drew the range of model plays in advance, which will only be determined next year.

Do you think the big play sung by the Red Star Factory will be out of line?

Furthermore, under the big play, focusing on promoting the Red Star Factory employees grasping production and promoting learning in the Red Star Theater, will this be out of line?

Any organizational activity will not have problems as long as it is under the correct organizational leadership.

Mai Xiaotian officially took office and became the president of the Dongfeng Club Drama Club.

And Tong Huimei and Jin Jiaojiao naturally joined the drama club.

Mai Xiaotian, who took a reassurance pill, began to list names, visiting old friends and masters all over the Four Nine Cities.

Talk one by one, say one by one.

Actually, it's not easy; trusting the Dongfeng Club is one aspect, and trusting the Red Star Factory is another aspect.

Most importantly, performing on stage, they are all afraid.

Moreover, according to the requirements of the Dongfeng Club, all actors applying to join the drama club must transfer their relationships.

That is to say, no matter which unit they were in before, as long as they want to go on stage, as long as they want to perform, they must transfer their relationships to the club.

What Mai Xiaotian heard from Yu Li was that the club would arrange for them to support factory construction, support rural construction, go to the workshop to work, and also go to the countryside to work.

Of course, work needs double quotation marks.

Those with qualified ideology need to learn, and those who are not qualified need to be transformed.

The club happens to have such opportunities and chances, they only need to give up their previous status and treatment.

Actually, what status and treatment do they have now.

The list Mai Xiaotian listed reveals caution everywhere, and he won't easily cause trouble for the club.

It's actually easy for these people to be transferred from their original units, because no one takes them seriously.

Then someone asked, the club organized so many actors to engage in literature and art, aren't they afraid of trouble?

Afraid, these people won't gather and rehearse in the club, they are all pulled to the Red Star Factory for exchange and learning.

When necessary, they are also pulled to the workshop to learn, to Red Star Village to learn...

To talk about brushing experience, no unit can compare to the Red Star Factory for convenience, wanting everything.

"Won't it lose money?"

Zuo Jie tried the clothes on his body, turned back and asked Zhou Xiaobai: "Opening five venues together."

"How can it lose money!"

Zhou Xiaobai was also picking clothes for herself, winter clothes just sent by the first supervision office, and there were good-looking leather clothes inside.

There is a leather factory in the Red Star Factory's third industry, and the raw materials mainly come from the frontier and the northeast, and the quality is very good.

The name is also very good, called Jiangnan Leather Factory.

Of course, the person in charge is not called Huang He.

Master Li made the board, imitating the flight leather jacket of Li Xuewu, and it was very imposing when worn on the body.

This is no longer a work uniform, so you have to spend your own money.

"A ticket is three cents and six, three hundred seats, one show is one hundred and eight."

The ticket price of the theater in this era is three cents and six, with zero and whole, and don't know who set it.

But with this standard, all theaters must comply, not one cent more, not one cent less.

Therefore, if you want to watch a play, you don't need to ask how much the ticket is, just take three cents and six, and first come first served for the front row.

"This is still a small theater."

Zhou Xiaobai tried the leather jacket, feeling fresh no matter what.

She looked in the mirror and said: "The theater in the city has one thousand three hundred seats, one show is more than four hundred and thirty yuan."

"I calculated it myself, four shows a week, all down to less than three thousand five, you say will it lose money?"

She turned back and asked Zuo Jie: "Does it look good?"

"Not good-looking—"

Zuo Jie tilted his head and looked, saying: "The shoulders are too wide, you can't support it."

"How to say it," he supported his chin with his hand and thought for a while, smiled and said: "Like a little girl stealing her father's clothes."

"Go to yours—"

Zhou Xiaobai glared at him and teased: "You are the one stealing your father's clothes!"

"Who hasn't stolen their father's clothes!"

Zuo Jie didn't mind this, tried the clothes on his body, and said: "Turn back and go to the first supervision office with me, let Master Li make one for you alone, it won't cost much more."

"That's great!"

Zhou Xiaobai took off the leather jacket on her body, only wearing a tight white sweater.

She asked casually: "Heard that Wu Ge's family orders clothes at Master Li's place?"

"I really don't know this," Zuo Jie replied casually: "How could I ask about this."

He wouldn't talk nonsense even if he knew, especially in front of Zhou Xiaobai.

If this reached Li Xuewu's ears, don't know what it would be passed into, then what kind of person would he be?

"You mentioned Wu Ge, I remembered," Zuo Jie turned back, looked at her and asked: "Why did you leave without eating dinner? Political Commissar Wang and others were all there—"

"Said there was something, just came back from a business trip."

Zhou Xiaobai put on her cotton-padded jacket and tidied up her braid.

She said casually: "Stayed in Steel City for five days this week, came home as soon as I was busy here."

"Oh, did he ask about the situation in Beijing?"

Zuo Jie sat on the box, dangling his little legs, and said: "I still wanted to report the club's work to him."

"Go to the Red Star Factory to find him directly," Zhou Xiaobai glanced at him and said: "If you are in a hurry."

"What are you in a hurry for?"

She frowned slightly and said: "Why haven't I seen Luo Yun recently? Falling out?"

"Can't you hope for something good for us?"

Zuo Jie saw that she was not interested, maybe it started from the topic just now.

However, he pretended not to know, explained: "Taken away by Brother Guodong, said he was too busy."

"Su Qing in the front courtyard also went," he signaled outside the door and said: "Borrowed several people from here."

"I see Fourth Brother is not there either."

Zhou Xiaobai nodded, searched for suitable clothes on the hanger, and replied: "I just said it."

"Mainly channel construction after entering winter," she looked for a lady's shirt and sized it up, continuing: "He doesn't trust those people like Li Yuanchao."

"Of course he won't trust—"

Zuo Jie pulled the corner of his mouth and said: "Not to mention Wu Ge, even I don't trust them."

"So, I didn't treat them as my own people at all," Zhou Xiaobai turned back, looked at Zuo Jie and said: "But Wu Ge also said, just use them if you can."

The shallow meaning of this sentence is: throw it away when you don't need it.

Zuo Jie was not surprised by Li Xuewu's attitude, but Zhou Xiaobai's attitude was quite interesting.

He raised his eyebrows and asked pointedly: "Including Zhang Haiyang and Zhong Yuemin?"

Zhou Xiaobai didn't answer his question immediately, but glanced at him and said "boring".

She had never said she wanted to date Zhang Haiyang, nor had she promised Zhong Yuemin any commitment.

Just didn't refuse and stop the two's favor and pursuit.

Is it a mistake to be liked by others?

Then she doesn't mind making a mistake on top of a mistake.

Their pursuit of her doesn't delay her relationship with Li Xuewu.

What relationship?

She can't explain it clearly now, is Li Xuewu raising her?

That is indeed the case, it seems to be like this.

More than one hundred yuan of dividends every month!

She dares to swear that she has tried very hard to spend money.

Food, clothing, housing, and transportation, all high standards.

If someone chased her and listed the list, it could be called a big-spending girl.

But even if she spent like this, she could still have savings, you say, isn't it annoying!

Li Yuanchao showed off saving money to buy a car in front of her, and said something about being her driver.

Zhang Haiyang wasn't even as good as Li Yuanchao, didn't even mix a motorcycle, and followed along to blow cowhide.

Zhong Yuemin was a bit better, but who knows what he was thinking in his heart.

Therefore, watching the three of them strutting like peacocks in front of her was truly both funny and boring.

Her dividends couldn't be spent, the car was called whenever she wanted, if she wanted a jeep, it was an Antelope, if she wanted a sedan, it was a Volga.

The reason she didn't want to go home to live was just that; she didn't feel anything when riding a bicycle home before.

But now, a girl who has become accustomed to sitting in a car, how can she ride a bicycle.

Therefore, she would rather live in the International Hotel and save money to buy a house, not wanting people to talk about gossip.

Do her parents know her current situation?

Should have some understanding, but not comprehensive.

The daughter is so big, and the couple has their own work to busy with, especially in this period.

As long as the daughter is clean and positive, they don't make excessive demands.

How many children in the courtyard cause trouble for their parents, compared to that, Zhou Xiaobai, who has started to live independently, counts as a leader.

It's just that the couple would never have thought that the life their daughter is living is so luxurious.

Of course, this life counts as luxurious in the eyes of ordinary people, and only counts as a bit excessive in their eyes.

However, Zhou Xiaobai didn't do anything bad, and if there was a problem, it would have been investigated long ago.

Zhou Zhennan had long had a detailed understanding of the Red Star Factory, his daughter's work in Jinmen, and Li Xuewu.

Zhou Xiaobai also knew that her father had some understanding, so her courage grew, and she dared to tease Li Xuewu.

"Wu Ge only wore a leather jacket," she asked Zuo Jie: "Why haven't I seen that style?"

"Not from the first supervision office, brought back from the Northeast."

Zuo Jie explained: "You might not know, Northeast people have an inexplicable pursuit of leather jackets."

"Ours sells for more than two hundred, theirs sells for three hundred, four hundred, and there are people buying it, what they want is face!"

Late October, not yet November, Beijing had a moderate snow.

The north wind rolled the snow all over the sky, and the sun on the top of the head was white and couldn't be seen clearly.

In the past, Beijing wouldn't cool down so fast, and snow usually fell in November.

Hmm, that's the first snow sung in the song.

Cooling in advance, snow in advance, indicating that winter also came in advance.

No need to wait for the winter solstice, winter has already come.

When coming out of the house in the morning, Han Jiankun specially put anti-skid chains on the car, which Li Xuewu taught him.

The principle of anti-skid chains is very simple, tell the hardware factory, it's very easy to make.

This year, all the cars in the factory were configured, and after that tragedy in the summer, the motorcade management was very strict.

All kinds of materials didn't dare to delay at all, especially the small motorcade, especially the passenger cars used by leaders.

You see it's cold outside, from the moment you enter the building door, the temperature comes rushing, this is the power of the steel mill.

The boiler workshop burns non-stop, hot water circulates, it's not cold in the office area office, and it's not that cold in the workshop.

Very afraid that Li Xuewu would get angry if he stayed in the office for a long time, there were a lot of green plants in his office this year.

Don't know who put them on the windowsill, a long row, all full, full of strange flowers and grass.

The desk and bookcase, as well as his small lounge, were also full of green plants blooming.

He wasn't deliberately putting on airs, let alone pretending, and he never watered those flowers and grass.

Some leaders just like to keep a few pots of flowers in their offices, holding a pair of small scissors and going 'snip-snip' to put on a show.

Or carrying a small watering can to water them, loosen the soil, and so on—isn't that just avoiding real work and messing around?

The temperature of the radiators is very high, and no one dares to touch them easily with their hands.

Peng Xiaoli asked for a few iron boxes with hooks from the workshop and hung them on top, replenishing the water inside from time to time.

The most primitive humidifier was born.

Li Xuewu has no time to fiddle with these things; as time enters the latter part of October, the workload has suddenly increased.

On the engineering side, outdoor construction has stopped and shifted to interior renovation.

This year's main project, the air-raid defense project, is underground; after the soil is backfilled, it won't hinder winter construction, and things are bustling down there.

Interior renovation for some of the building structures has begun.

For example, the Red Star Hospital is expected to be put into use next year.

You can't build houses in winter, but you can tear them down.

Out of the sixteen enterprises merged from the surrounding area, twelve have already completed liquidation and restructuring.

This includes relevant personnel deployment, machinery arrangement and disposal, and the transfer and allocation of related businesses.

The Security Group has a lot of work, and the Management Office has even more.

Sixteen factories mean sixteen administrative units.

Sixteen security divisions, sixteen propaganda divisions, sixteen management offices...

Let's not say much; if one division has thirty people, multiplied by sixteen, what is that?

Four hundred and eighty people, and that's just for the small divisions!

The staff in these administrative units are all in cadre positions, and the Red Star Factory had to screen them once when they were merged.

What is the standard?

The personnel reform that the Red Star Factory has been carrying out for several months is the screening standard.

Suitable ones are directly transferred to corresponding departments, while unsuitable ones are sent down to the grassroots for training or directly assigned to fill vacancies.

It is fortunate that the administrative personnel reform started in the middle of this year; otherwise, how would these three thousand people be arranged?

They are all cadre positions; if they were all filled in, with more people than work, the Red Star Factory would surely be doomed.

The Red Star Factory has organized several batches of technical reform groups and supply chain service groups.

They mainly select people from the Production Management Division and the Technical Division, and personnel from other divisions have also been transferred over.

These people have formed various working groups, dispatched to technical reform units across the country to provide support.

These units participated in this year's Supply Chain Conference and, feeling the arrival of the automotive industry revolution, are undergoing internal reforms that require the support of the Red Star Factory.

Of course, support is not free, and the formation of technical reform teams has provided room for maneuver in personnel work.

The Red Star Factory's earlier administrative office structure consisted of three generations—old, middle-aged, and young; a few left and a few came every year, and it had always been like that.

This personnel reform has provided a huge impetus for changing the office mechanism.

Clearly, more than half of the old staff within the divisions have left, mostly going down to serve as deputy division chiefs or key personnel.

More than half of the young people have left, mostly going to key departments to serve as deputy division chiefs or key personnel.

Young people sent down are the fewest; most are promoted or transferred laterally to key positions.

After the cadres from the sixteen enterprises arrived, they had a new understanding of the age of the Red Star Factory's administrative cadres.

There are very few old people; most are middle-aged cadres and young key personnel, and their work execution is extremely efficient.

Naturally, those who can be transferred into the administration are also middle-aged cadres and young key personnel.

The work of rejuvenating the cadre ranks has been quietly pushed forward, and high-quality screening and the transfer and appointment of cadres from all sides have completely broken the Red Star Factory's original personnel ecology.

Today you still have old connections, and tomorrow you see new faces.

Starting from July, cadres who have completed their training have arrived at their posts one after another.

Especially in the last few months, the merger work has become a general trend, and by going with the flow, the results are naturally doubled with half the effort.

In the Red Star Factory's administrative divisions, new people report for duty almost every week, and all departments across the factory are facing personnel adjustments; the main heads haven't moved, but there are more deputies.

It's not the end of the year yet, so department heads basically won't move unless there are special circumstances.

Adding deputies or transferring deputies is a very normal situation.

The Red Star Factory wants to implement a two-team lineup at the Steel Rolling Factory to facilitate the split for Beijing Industry in two years.

This was agreed upon long ago; the current industrial machinery and equipment of the Steel Rolling Factory will be transferred to Beijing Industry.

Of course, this also includes the entire management team, as well as the entire staff and management system.

Therefore, the workshops have already started implementing a three-shift work system, and half of the workers are prepared for Beijing Industry.

Correspondingly, even though personnel reform has been carried out, the Red Star Factory's administrative units have expanded rapidly in the second half of this year.

If a division originally had thirty people, it now basically has around eighty, or even more.

Even the Security Division has increased by more than six hundred people, which shows how crazy this large-scale industrial merger is.

The Red Star Factory truly managed to become fat in one bite, but it ate too fiercely and almost choked to death.

Since entering September, Gu Weijie's temper has become irritable, and consequently, the tempers of the Organization and Personnel departments have also flared up.

Some even heard Deputy Director Gu scolding people in Director Li's office; who she was scolding, no one knows, but they were definitely arguing.

At this time, no one dares to confront Deputy Director Gu and the Organization and Personnel departments, because they are under too much pressure and really dare to take ruthless action.

The workload is too heavy, and this is even after constantly absorbing and expanding the staff of the Personnel Department since June, and still having to deal with personnel work so arduously.

Investigation, assessment, screening, interviews... all the work needs to be completed by them.

Under this kind of pressure, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Department of the Security Group still comes to the door every day to watch, spot-check, and investigate.

Whenever there is a violation, the Discipline Inspection Department is the most merciless.

Many cadres have come this year, and many have gone down.

People say that Safety Supervision is the Security Group's little poodle, so Discipline Inspection and Supervision is the Security Group's big wolfhound.

These people bite to death once they find a clue, and no one's intercession is useful, especially against the backdrop of a surplus of cadres.

However, the expansion of administrative personnel is something the Red Star Factory hopes to see, and it is also a necessary process.

It is impossible to expect the administration that originally managed more than ten thousand people to manage more than ninety thousand.

Now, on the engineering side, they are busily moving machines, selling machines, tearing down factory buildings, and renovating factory buildings.

Workers and cadres have to be received and settled by the Red Star Factory.

Various training classes organized by the Education Management Division and various ideological education classes were started under these circumstances.

As long as there are no special circumstances, all merged cadres must participate in training.

If there is a need, a cadre might be called out to take up a post while they are still in class.

The outside world is waiting to see the Red Star Factory make a fool of itself.

Following the scale of merging three factories a month, everyone is waiting to see when the Red Star Factory will be stuffed to death.

Fortunately, the Red Star Factory has made full preparations.

Front-line workers have hardly delayed the schedule; they transfer from their original factories to report to the Red Star Factory, participate in three days of training, then trial posts, post adjustments, and finally fixed posts.

It might take ten days, or it might take seven; while they are learning and trying out posts, the machinery and equipment of the original factory area are phased out or moved to the existing tertiary industrial zone.

If the phase-out rate of the original factory's machinery and equipment is very high, it is very likely that work stops there and starts here, and it won't take more than three days in between, which is still the time for learning and adapting to new machinery.

The Red Star Factory, which owns the Fengcheng No. 1 Machine Tool Factory, has absolute confidence in industrial construction, equipment supply, and production adjustment.

This merger of sixteen enterprises might have allowed Beijing Industry to shed its burden, and they feel they have profited.

But the Red Star Factory received workers, received cadres, and established tertiary industries, so it didn't lose out either.

As for the original sixteen enterprises, machinery, equipment, cars, trucks, engineering machinery, etc., as long as they do not meet the Red Star Factory's production management standards, they are all sold off.

Enterprises adjacent to the Liangma River Industrial Zone have started the work of treasure hunting.

They have been buying second-hand machinery and other assets from here nearby.

The funds obtained from the disposal of these assets are not very different from the Red Star Factory's new factory construction and purchase of new machinery; even looking at the numbers, Old Li wants to bang his head against the wall.

You know, the sixteen enterprises have many overlapping or common businesses.

After truly integrating them, there are only five factories newly built in the tertiary industry.

Sixteen factories compressed and integrated into five, and it's still the tertiary industry's large-workshop management model; how much could you possibly lose?

Someone asked, how many workers in sixteen factories, how many in five, how are the surplus workers settled?

What surplus workers? Where are there more?

All branches of the Red Star Factory, except for those with product restrictions, such as the automotive industry, have started a three-shift work system, so there are not many workers left.

On the engineering team side, the age structure of the personnel has obviously increased by several years.

Generally, workers in their forties or fifties who are about to retire cannot keep up with the new production situation in terms of energy and ability, and can only continue to contribute to the factory in the form of manual labor.

Do you think there is a problem with the Red Star Factory's worker structure management? Why does a factory of ninety thousand people have an engineering team of nearly ten thousand?

You haven't seen a three-thousand-person project with a twenty-five-hundred-person engineering team.

In this day and age, what project is the most important?

Air-raid defense projects; all units must do them, and they must be done without affecting normal production.

But think about it, can it not affect normal production?

The Red Star Factory did it just right, satisfying the construction needs of the air-raid defense project while completing the overall personnel reform and adjustment.

Workers are digested, what about cadres?

Cadres are easier to digest; there are more people, so the administration needs more people.

Is the Red Star Factory preparing two teams?

Yes, but not entirely; specifically, it should be three teams.

One is for Beijing Industry, to lead and manage the Beijing Steel Rolling Factory that will be split off in the future.

One is for the Red Star Group, to lead and manage the new Steel Rolling Factory that will move to Steel City in the future.

Who is the other one for?

It is to select the best from these cadres to fill the administration of the Red Star Iron and Steel Group that is about to be established.

Moreover, the Red Star Factory will successively establish professional factories and branches, and each unit will also need to form small administrative offices.

Therefore, don't be afraid of having more people now; it is just right for the Red Star Factory to cultivate a new cadre team.

"How many people has your newspaper office added?"

Li Xuewu flipped through the publication construction plan in his hand and asked casually.

Influenced by him, the Red Star Factory's administrative cadres have developed the habit of writing plan proposals when doing work.

When submitting an application report, you must have this thing, which also saves the leader from asking questions you can't answer.

"Sixty-five people, Deputy Director Li," Chai Chunlian, the person in charge of the factory newspaper, sat opposite the desk and replied cautiously: "I heard that more than twenty people will be transferred over before the end of the year."

"Hmm, more people, more power—"

Li Xuewu said indifferently: "You must do a good job in unity."

"Your newspaper office is just like the cultural propaganda team, only taking in and not letting out."

"Yes, I understand!" Chai Chunlian promised very seriously: "I will definitely convey your opinions and do a good job with the comrades' work."

"How will you do it? Do you have any ideas?"

Li Xuewu suddenly asked this, which was a bit unconventional.

Chai Chunlian was indeed stunned for a moment; the previous answer was just a reflex, as everyone said that.

It's just that he manages the newspaper office and has always had a sharp mind.

After being stunned for a second, he said a few clichés, and seeing that Li Xuewu didn't look at him again, he knew the leader was dissatisfied.

Fortunately, with this buffer, he had a concrete work plan in his mind.

He said two more constructive ones, but Li Xuewu had already finished reading the plan and interrupted his report.

"What is unity? How do you talk about unity?"

He tapped his own head and said: "Ideology must be tightened like a string; this is unity."

"You have ready-made work and causes here; is it necessary to talk so much nonsense?"

Li Xuewu patted the document beside his hand and said: "Since the leaders have already coordinated for you, the next steps are clearly written here."

"Explain the purpose and plan of the work clearly to the comrades, and they will naturally unite."

"Yes, thank you, Deputy Director Li."

Chai Chunlian nodded seriously and asked tentatively: "Then this plan..."

This was already the third report their newspaper office had revised, and he was really afraid that Li Xuewu would reject their opinions again.

"You have united seven brother units to work together to run a newspaper; you should know how great this influence is."

Li Xuewu looked at him and said: "I know you are under great pressure, but this is a cause; mindset is more important, comrade."

"Yes, sorry leader, I was a bit anxious," Chai Chunlian smiled embarrassedly and said: "We will definitely make the plan detailed and thorough."

"This is just for the leaders to see," Li Xuewu held down the plan in his hand and said: "You have to let them know how you want to do it and what you are doing, right?"

"Running a newspaper office and a publishing house, the factory leaders have high hopes for your work."

He nodded, let out a long breath, and said: "This project was proposed last year, and it only landed today; it's not easy, so cherish it."

"Understood!"

Chai Chunlian stood up very solemnly and said: "We will definitely do a good job with this newspaper and the publishing house."

Based on the Red Star Factory newspaper, it will unite with the factory newspapers of brother units such as the Chemical Plant, Glass Factory, Beijing No. 2 Auto, and Beijing No. 2 Machinery to jointly form a joint newspaper office and publishing house.

The name of the newspaper has been decided, called "United Industrial News," and the name of the newspaper office is United Industrial Daily, which corresponds to the publishing house.

In the office area of the Ecological Industrial Zone, the foundation of the newspaper building has been completed, just waiting for construction next year.

The Red Star Factory does projects and publicity with goals and purposes.

In Old Li's words, even if you throw money, you have to make a splash.

With a building standing there, the United Industrial News will attract more and more brother units to join in the future.

Just like the current United Savings Bank, it has broken through the public account barriers of all joint units and tertiary industry units.

Projects and engineering projects cooperated by several parties, public accounts of various units, capital flow accounts, etc., have all been entrusted to the United Savings Bank for management.

The Red Star Factory changed the capital management system under the planned economy production model and eliminated the hidden dangers of triangular debt.

This advantage does not need to be repeated; all units can see it.

Depositing money into the United Savings Bank realizes the docking of planned production accounts, reducing the transfer management of the Ministry of Industry.

From raw material units to application units, it is a one-stop service, completely breaking the risk of bad debts.

The entry of these units has driven other enterprises in the industrial chain to open accounts at the United Savings Bank.

This is the purpose the Red Star Factory wanted to achieve when planning the United Savings Bank.

The United Savings Bank is not only a channel for financial services in cooperation with the Trade Management Center, but also a sharp weapon to attract other enterprises to approach the Red Star Factory.

The United Industrial News also has such a role.