Chapter 1391: Don't be a fool, whatever you do

"Me? I still remember it to this day."

Wang Fengnian, the former workshop director of the No. 3 Blast Furnace Workshop at the Steel City Steelmaking Plant—the predecessor to the Red Star Steel City Metallurgical Plant—held Li Xuewu's hand and spoke incessantly about his experiences participating in the revolution before Liberation.

Wang Fengnian was an old comrade; he started working in 1919, joined the Steel City progressive organization in 1921, and subsequently performed actively in his work, becoming a member of our organization.

He had been an employee of the steelmaking plant his entire career, and it had been nearly ten years since he retired from his position as workshop director.

Never mind Li Xuewu; even when Dong Wenxue first came to Steel City, they had never worked together, yet he would come to visit him every year.

He would be 70 years old after the New Year, which was considered a long life in this era, and he was even more of a "treasure" to the Metallurgical Plant.

As the old saying goes, having an elder in the family is like having a treasure. Our organization has always maintained the fine tradition of respecting veteran cadres.

Li Xuewu did not know how Dou Changfang and Luo Jiaping had handled the management and service work for veteran cadres previously, but looking at the work records from the last few years, it was evident that Dong Wenxue placed great importance on this area of work.

Regardless of whether he was just putting on a show to win people over or if the veteran cadres genuinely supported his work, they had played a key role in his work over the past three years. Li Xuewu had always insisted on putting respect first.

It is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation; if you do not respect your elders, how can you expect your subordinates to respect you?

Therefore, even though Wang Fengnian was a bit long-winded when he saw him, and his son was even more awkwardly trying to remind his old father but had no opportunity to do so, only being able to smile apologetically at Li Xuewu, Li Xuewu did not interrupt him, but instead listened patiently as he told his stories.

At this moment, they were in Wang Fengnian's home. Li Xuewu, along with Wang Shuqiong, had visited employees who could not return home for the New Year due to work-related injuries before diverting to come here.

Wang Fengnian had seniority and was also a man of long life, so the office had chosen his home as the first stop.

It was just unexpected; when Director Dong Wenxue had come here previously, the old director hadn't been this clingy. If that were truly the case, they couldn't have made such a "mistake."

Inside the room, only Wang Fengnian's entire family was accompanying the Secretary-General and Deputy Director Wang Shuqiong, and then there was Office Deputy Director Zhang Jing sitting on a stool in the corner; everyone else was outside the door.

Zhang Enyuan looked at Zhang Jing with a somewhat strange expression; Zhang Jing also felt a bit embarrassed—this was his mistake.

However, in this kind of setting, asking him to say anything else was impossible; this kind of error could not be admitted to voluntarily.

Even if he were to admit it, it wouldn't be to Zhang Enyuan. He would explain it slightly when the Secretary-General came out.

Of course, Zhang Jing wasn't here just to make up the numbers; he was holding a notebook, recording the leader's visitation process.

He was considered an old hand with the pen; although he wasn't old in age, he had been by Dong Wenxue's side for three or four years.

The reason he chose to stay in Steel City was also because he was optimistic about the future development opportunities of the Steel City Industrial Zone.

Young cadres like him only had a chance to get ahead if they honed their skills in business and achieved results.

Even if he wanted to develop in the direction of the office, he had to have a solid foundation in grassroots business work.

And so, he exchanged a glance with Zhang Enyuan outside the door, then turned his head back to look in the direction of the sofa, becoming fully focused, his hands not stopping as he summarized and recorded.

Recording what?

Don't look at the fact that the Secretary-General and Wang Fengnian were just talking about everyday trivialities, and Wang Fengnian was talking about old, stale matters, but at the tip of his pen, the following text was formed:

On February 16, Li Xuewu, Secretary-General of the Red Star Iron and Steel Group, visited and expressed sympathy to sick employees Zhang Yuanli, retired veteran comrade Wang Fengnian, and others, representing the Group Management Committee and the Metallurgical Plant Management Committee in thanking them for the important contributions they made to the construction and development of the metallurgical industry, wishing them good health and a happy life.

Behind this news dispatch, this cannot be left out:

Wang Shuqiong, Deputy Director of the Metallurgical Plant Management Committee, Office Deputy Director Zhang Jing, and others participated in the activities.

Of course, this can be used as a work brief for the Metallurgical Plant and the Group tomorrow, and a more detailed elaboration will be needed in the United Industry News:

During the visitation process, Li Xuewu cared for and expressed sympathy to sick employees and had cordial exchanges with veteran comrades. When visiting veteran comrades, he concernedly inquired about their physical condition and living situation, earnestly listened to their opinions and suggestions on the industrial development of the Metallurgical Plant, and required all relevant departments to use their hearts and feelings to do a good job in service and security, care for and look after the veteran comrades, and create good conditions for the veteran comrades to live a happy life and continue to exert their remaining energy.

Li Xuewu said that currently, the entire Group is deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the important speech made by Director Li Huai De during his inspection of the Tianjin Trade Management Center, and in accordance with the deployment requirements of the entire Group and the plenary session of the Management Committee, taking "grasping revolution, promoting production" as the path, and "three-year plan, five-year plan" as the handle, accelerating the construction of a characteristic industrial industrial project cluster, and striving to make new contributions in showing the new style of the Group's industry and writing a new chapter for Liaodong industry, building a model industrial enterprise, and creating a growth pole.

In his speech, he pointed out that in recent years, the entire Group has paid particular attention to the service and security work for retired veteran comrades. In order to make the precise service for retired veteran comrades solid and detailed, and to effectively enhance the veteran comrades' sense of gain, participation, happiness, and security, he made clear requirements to the accompanying Management Committee Office, and mentioned the "Five Must-Visit" work system in his speech, with a service work mechanism where the main responsible comrades take the lead, team members are responsible in groups, and cadres and employees are paired for contact. Veteran comrades must have someone to ask after them in normal times, someone to visit them during festivals, someone to help them when they are in difficulty, and someone to visit them when they are sick, acting as the veteran comrades' intimate people.

Must visit when sick and hospitalized: send a care. Insist on taking visiting sick and hospitalized veteran comrades as an important way of spiritual solace for veteran comrades. When retired cadres are sick and hospitalized, the main person in charge and staff members go to the hospital in time to visit and greet them, understand their condition, give care and help, and instruct the hospital to provide high-quality medical services to ensure that veteran comrades receive timely and effective treatment.

Must visit during major festivals: say a blessing. During important festivals such as the Spring Festival, leadership team members and organizational cadres visit veteran cadres at home, chat about family matters, listen to suggestions, send them festival blessings and the organization's care and greetings, understand their needs in detail, and inform them of the Group's industrial development situation and the unit's work progress in a timely manner, so that the veteran comrades' sense of political honor, organizational belonging, and sense of life happiness continue to improve.

Must visit when in special difficulty: give a help. When retired cadres encounter difficulties in life, family, or other aspects, the factory leadership leads a team to visit veteran comrades door-to-door, understand the situation, establish a difficulty ledger, formulate effective measures, provide assistance in accordance with the special difficulty assistance mechanism, provide necessary help and support, and do their best to help veteran comrades solve difficult matters and do practical things.

Must visit on veteran cadres' birthdays, send a true feeling. Whenever retired cadres have a milestone birthday (70 years old and above), birthday blessings are sent through telephone, letters, field visits, etc., carefully understanding the veteran comrades' physical condition and living situation, recalling the glorious years together, and talking about future visions, letting them feel the warmth of the organization.

Must visit for major funeral events, pay a tribute. When a retired cadre passes away, factory leaders visit and express sympathy to the family in time, assist the family in handling funeral arrangements and pensions, do a good job in policy publicity and explanation, safeguard the vital interests of veteran cadres and their families, and send psychological comfort to the families.

He hopes that while taking care of their health, veteran comrades will continue to care for and support the development of the Group and the Metallurgical Plant's industry and various undertakings as always, put forward more valuable opinions and suggestions, and help us do a better job in all work. The veteran comrades unanimously expressed that they will fully support the work of the Group and the Metallurgical Plant Management Committee, continue to exert their remaining energy, and contribute strength to the Group's various undertakings reaching a new level and achieving new results.

Times are different now; Li Xuewu no longer specifically requires the propaganda department to avoid excessive publicity about him. In daily work, research, visits, and other activities, carrying out a certain degree of publicity about his itinerary according to work procedures and needs is also a kind of work, and it is work that the propaganda department needs to do.

Having reached this position, he can no longer do as he pleases, and even less can he act recklessly; he must consider work comprehensively.

Especially having just arrived in Liaodong, whether it is the Group or other branches of the Group, including the various enterprises of the Group in Steel City, they all need to understand the content of his work.

Therefore, both the office and the propaganda department are trying their best to collect and write news reports about him.

The office and the propaganda department also have tasks; the United Industry News has urged them several times, asking why the news dispatch hasn't been submitted since the Secretary-General arrived in Steel City.

Even the Red Star Literature and Art Publishing House's branch in Liaodong has been called and inquired by the headquarters two or three times.

The purpose is only one: the entire Group is waiting for Li Xuewu's first fire to be lit.

And the result?

He hasn't lit the fire yet, but the two deputy directors of the Steel City Metallurgical Plant have lit a fire for him, and it was burned in Beijing.

Looking back at Steel City, two deputy directors have left, and the one remaining isn't honest either, and is also being vague.

Who? Deputy Director Yin Zhongyao, of course.

With Yang Shuxing's lesson from the past, Yin Zhongyao wouldn't dare to go head-to-head with Li Xuewu; he plays it more insidiously.

On the surface, he puts on airs, hardly manages anything, and basically transfers any work that comes up to Li Xuewu.

If no one asks, that's fine; if someone asks, he says he respects the new leader and hopes the Secretary-General will learn more about the Metallurgical Plant's work.

Originally, at the Red Star Plant, he was responsible for personnel work and was the former deputy director of the Personnel Department. After arriving in Steel City, he was still responsible for organizational personnel work, and he was very confident in this aspect.

His old partner, Ding Zigui, who once served as director of the Personnel Department, had privately told him that he hoped he would actively cooperate with the new leader's work and lean towards the Secretary-General.

Due to face, Yin Zhongyao hummed and hawed, giving a vague response; he didn't refuse, nor did he agree.

In fact, he looked down on Ding Zigui in his heart. If it were before, he would have had to curry favor with him, as he was also considered a Group leader.

Now, what is Ding Zigui?

To put it nicely, he is responsible for the Group's mouthpiece, but isn't he still managed by the propaganda department? There are still superiors above him.

Looking at it this way, although Ding Zigui is the head of the Red Star Literature and Art Publishing House, at most, he is just a division-level official.

In his view, the other party's persuasion was a manifestation of cowardice. When Ding Zigui retired from the position of Director of the Management Committee Office to the Literature and Art Publishing House, it couldn't be said that Li Xuewu didn't have a "contribution" to it. How could he have surrendered so thoroughly now?

No matter how awesome Li Xuewu is, isn't he still just one head and two hands? Others fear him, but he certainly doesn't.

If he can't beat him openly, can't he beat him insidiously?

Besides, Li Xuewu might not necessarily be able to do anything in Steel City. Want to boss people around? Let him stand firm first.

"Regarding security work—" In the car returning to the factory area, Wang Shuqiong hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Xuewu, and asked: "Should we ask Comrade Han Zhan to work a bit harder?"

"Hmm, what's wrong?" Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows slightly, turned his head to look at her, and asked: "Is there something going on? Or—"

"No, it's me who is going on vacation."

Wang Shuqiong said somewhat embarrassedly: "How about I don't take a vacation this year? It's not like it's missing out on this one meal of dumplings."

"Dumplings are still best eaten with the whole family to be lively and delicious. What is all the hard work for a year for?"

Li Xuewu looked at her and said: "Rest assured and take your vacation. Security work will be temporarily handed over to Han Zhan."

"Okay, then I'll go back and talk to him about it."

Wang Shuqiong sized up Li Xuewu's expression and tentatively said in a low voice: "Regarding Deputy Director Zongfang—"

"Can't count on him for the time being."

Li Xuewu sighed lightly and explained: "He has deep feelings for his father-in-law, and after all, he has to send him on his final journey. Let's just work a bit harder and be more understanding."

"Yes, I can understand." Wang Shuqiong nodded and said: "In middle age, it's hard to balance work and family."

"At this time, we must reflect the organization's care and concern; we can't hold him back—"

Li Xuewu said indifferently: "I heard the situation isn't very good; he is already on his deathbed."

"Oh—" Wang Shuqiong also sighed indifferently and said: "I have to make a call when I get back to ask. If there really is a situation, should we be prepared?"

"Hmm, I won't be able to go back." Li Xuewu looked ahead and said: "Care and sympathy have already been asked to be sent by Comrade Qingfang on my behalf; there isn't much more that can be done."

"Mutual understanding—" Wang Shuqiong nodded, then asked again: "Since you mentioned this, I remembered, is Deputy Director Shuxing's father-in-law also sick?"

"Hmm, he is indeed 'sick'—"

Li Xuewu's eyebrows twitched, and he nodded with a rather strange expression, saying: "He is also a life of toil."

They are all foxes in the mountains; what kind of strange tales are they telling?

Wang Shuqiong had arrived in Steel City a year earlier than him; perhaps she had already fought with these old fogies single-handedly.

Playing the trick of sowing discord in his car today, it seems the organizational ecology of Steel City really has problems.

This brings up Dong Wenxue. Li Xuewu is moved by his actions in Liaodong and the Steel City Metallurgical Plant; if it weren't for his gentleness and hard work, the Group's industry in Liaodong wouldn't have achieved such a stable development situation.

It's just that his methods were too soft, making the cadres in Steel City somewhat arrogant; they even dared to play tricks in front of him.

Heh, perhaps they really thought he was just a young man.

Looking at those two probes earlier, combined with this one, Li Xuewu unexpectedly discovered that she also wanted to covet Yang Zongfang's territory.

What? Asking if Han Zhan could take over; if he said Han Zhan couldn't, was she going to make a move?

Initially, when Yang Zongfang asked for leave, he took the opportunity to let Yang Zongfang hand over his work, which perhaps stimulated some people's nerves.

After all, the conflict with Yang Zongfang had probably been heard more than once in these people's ears. It wouldn't be surprising to use his light to calculate against Yang Zongfang.

Li Xuewu didn't think Wang Shuqiong's methods and thoughts were particularly malicious, just that her eating manner was ugly.

Since she wanted to go home on vacation and only talked about the security work handed over from Yang Zongfang, why avoid talking about the economic management work she was responsible for? Perhaps it was also a probe.

Probing whether he had any intention of having her hand over her work as well, whether it was the same as Yang Zongfang and Yang Shuxing.

Conversely, if Li Xuewu didn't ask her to hand over her work, it would prove that he had opinions about the two Yangs. At least it was differential treatment.

If handled according to the two Yangs' method, it would prove that this Secretary-General was truly executing work according to organizational procedures. At that time, she would have to retract her claws, put down her greed, and stop probing.

One matter turns several corners, connected with eight hundred heart-eyes and over a thousand doorways; this is the organ cadre.

She wanted to test Li Xuewu's ability and level, but was somewhat unwilling to lean over like this, but who made her an outsider? In Steel City, she was already isolated and helpless.

The situation of Deputy Director Liu Yongnian, who came shortly after her, was the same as hers, and even somewhat worse.

Liu Yongnian was also an outsider, having come in when the Red Star Iron and Steel Group merged sixteen Beijing industrial enterprises.

And her? A cadre from the Fengcheng No. 1 Machine Tool Plant.

Under the guidance of Group Deputy Director Jing Yunong, Fengcheng No. 1 Machine Tool Plant head Xiao Zihong carried out a full-structure reform of the enterprise.

From the technical level to production management, even the organizational structure and enterprise structure completed a major blood transfusion and split.

Fengcheng No. 1 Machine Tool Plant now only retains the ability to produce machine tool equipment; other mechanical parts production parts have been transferred to Steel City, forming a new industrial enterprise—Steel City Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Plant, which is a second-level enterprise in the Steel City Industrial Zone.

Technology and production are changing under the influence of the Group's overall reform ideas, and personnel reform is of course also underway.

She was the one who underwent post adjustment during the personnel reform process, coming from Fengcheng to Steel City.

Regardless, she is also considered a Northeasterner, or even a Liaodong person; compared to Liu Yongnian, she is considered a local.

If talking about political and local relationship foundations, she is of course much stronger than Liu Yongnian; this is where she has the advantage.

However, she is a female comrade, naturally disadvantaged in factory management, even if the team emphasizes having female comrades.

But everyone knows that the more you emphasize something, the more it means you lack it; the organization is still a man's world.

She doesn't know what Liu Yongnian thinks, but she knows that Xiao Zihong, who is now the head of the Red Star Fengcheng Machinery Plant, was once Li Xuewu's deputy.

Referring to news from other channels, this Liaodong industry is actually already under Li Xuewu's control.

Looking at the relationship between Li Xuewu and Dong Wenxue, all of Dong Wenxue's forces in Steel City will be fully received by him.

Look, Dong Wenxue's secretary Zhang Wei is still in Steel City and hasn't left, but he doesn't hold any position.

What does this mean?

Helping him onto the horse and sending him off for a ride; it couldn't be more obvious.

After the New Year, the Group will be able to complete the organizational structure reform, forming a management pattern of large departments and small offices.

And in Steel City, the newly formed enterprises have already taken advantage of the situation to complete the standardization structure construction of Group enterprises and factories.

Listen, you can tell by listening to everyone's titles for their respective factory heads. Those called factory directors are basically branches that have already completed organizational structure reform.

Those called directors or factory directors are enterprises that existed before the Group, or enterprises that completed the Management Committee system construction and reform work in the early stages of the Group.

Such as the Metallurgical Plant, Hardware Plant, etc., these enterprises all need to complete actions to reduce the influence of the Management Committee.

Of course, it's not to say that these factories are completely decided by the factory director under the Group's management, and the Management Committee has nothing to do with it.

Li Huai De clearly stated in the Group's development plan that the Group Management Committee is the only organizational management structure for the entire Group, and other branch factory management committees belong to branches.

Therefore, whether the branch factory management committees are dismantled or not does not affect the branch factories carrying out corresponding work under the guidance and management of the Group Management Committee.

Reducing the Management Committee structure is a transition to a group-based, modernized, and professionalized enterprise, which is a manifestation of progress.

Each branch factory still retains the Management Committee organizational structure, but is only responsible for propaganda, organization, labor unions, and other work.

Business work must be independent, gradually restoring the factory director responsibility system, and building a management pattern unified by the Group Management Committee.

Once the Metallurgical Plant carries out corresponding actions, they, these deputy directors, will face the reality of re-division of labor.

Each Management Committee group, including the security group, political group, logistics group, production group, and economic management group, must be split.

Tossing and turning, tossing and turning blindly.

How does that saying go? The general trend of the world is that it divides after a long union, and unites after a long division; it seems to have been like this for the last two years.

Before and after the New Year, Li Xuewu has been busy with research; after the research is finished, he will issue a report, giving his management intentions in Steel City, and introducing corresponding policies and guiding principles.

By then, Li Xuewu will complete the team division layout; what should she do?

The Metallurgical Plant team members are not one level away from Li Xuewu, but two levels, or even three levels.

Don't look at Li Xuewu's current rank as average; his status as a Group leader is enough to crush them.

This office meeting has never been held; orders are all issued in the form of notices from the Management Committee Office. Can't she understand this? Li Xuewu didn't treat them as team comrades at all, but as subordinates of the Liaodong Industrial Management Group.

There is an old Chinese saying: those who know the times are heroes.

Now it is time for her to make a choice and think about how to respond to Li Xuewu.

Follow, and prosper; oppose, and perish.

"If he isn't hitting cotton with a punch, what is he doing?"

When Wang Shuqiong saw Yin Zhongyao, she couldn't help but mutter; this is also someone who doesn't open his eyes.

She and Li Xuewu had more people to visit, so they returned later, and it was already past four o'clock when they arrived at the factory.

Old comrades and sick employees were visited, so the site also had to be checked, otherwise Li Xuewu really wouldn't be at ease.

However, during the New Year, one couldn't go empty-handed, as if not trusting the duty personnel.

So he didn't do those twists and turns, doing any literary performances or anything; no one wanted to be tossed around.

The most simple and warmest thing is a mouthful of dumplings, so he called on all the Metallurgical Plant team members at home who could bring family members to bring them, and those who couldn't bring family members to go to the canteen with the comrades from various offices who were staying for the New Year to wrap dumplings.

That's right, Li Xuewu specially approved a sum of funds and got a lot of flour and pork from the distribution unit.

No one can taste the foreign flavor in this flour and pork, but it is indeed not domestic goods; how it came about won't be mentioned.

If you want to say how much this meal of dumplings is worth and how much it costs, there is actually no need to calculate it like that. Doing literary performances, doing sympathy performances, doing messy things—don't they cost money?

Saving all these and squeezing a bit from other funds, wouldn't it be there?

Thinking about it, one can know how the workers in the workshop feel when they are on duty in the factory on New Year's Eve, watching the lights of ten thousand homes and the dancing fish and dragons.

But when they receive the notice from the workshop director that around eight o'clock tonight, the factory leaders will come to send dumplings, you say how their mood will be.

All the remaining cadres in the office cannot leave after work and must go to the large canteen to help.

This mixing of dough, chopping of filling, and wrapping of dumplings are technical jobs.

Put in more green onions, put in less pork, make the skin thin, and try to let all the workers on duty today eat dumplings. No matter how many or how few dumplings are stuffed into their mouths today, their hearts must be warm and hot.

In later generations, some people complained that the Spring Festival Gala was left with only the theme of wrapping dumplings, which looked boring. Actually, it is not. For later generations, eating dumplings is common, but at this time, eating dumplings is quite difficult.

This is still 1969; the national economic situation is improving, and the above has completed the layout of economic development, and the living standards of urban workers have obviously improved.

If it were before, even if you wanted to eat eggs, there would be no way; you couldn't even pick up eggshells.

Li Xuewu can clearly feel that urban supply outside the Iron and Steel Group is developing towards richness.

Still talking about eggs, this thing can actually be seen in the market, and ordinary people can buy it.

People of this era have an obsession with a rich material life, which is reflected in later generations as that meal of dumplings.

No matter how far apart a family is, they all want to get together and eat a hot reunion dinner.

The reason why this meal is not cherished in later generations is that gathering is easy, and airplanes and high-speed trains can get home.

Who has that condition in this era?

Li Xuewu's grandmother can only see other children and grandchildren once every few years; is this a problem in later generations?

So when the dining tables in the large canteen were merged together in rows, arranged in zones according to the steps of wrapping dumplings, and everyone performed their duties, the scene was even more lively and passionate.

Although these dumplings were wrapped by themselves and couldn't be eaten yet, they could say it was worth it to the workers.

They can go home for reunion tonight, but what about the workers in the factory?

The canteen master was busy spinning around, having to instruct the filling group to put in seasonings, and also having to watch the dough mixing group and the skin rolling group.

At this time, everyone has a mouth to eat, so there are very few who don't know how to wrap dumplings. Those who really don't know how to wrap dumplings are arranged for other work, such as watching the pile.

The wrapped dumplings cannot be put into the pot immediately, otherwise they will become mushy. It's not eight o'clock yet; these wrapped dumplings are to be frozen first.

The outdoor temperature in Steel City is not very cold, just around minus 32 or 33 degrees; dumplings placed on a wooden table can withstand three minutes before being frozen into ice lumps.

You don't believe it?

This is really not lying; after the temperature at night reaches minus 30 degrees, your peeing is different.

That urine falling on the ground looks like water, and then it is ice; if you pee slowly, you can freeze on the water column.

This is a bit exaggerated, but there are really frozen ones.

The closer it gets to eight o'clock, the more tense the atmosphere in the canteen becomes, and everyone has no intention to look at the Secretary-General.

Just on the side of wrapping dumplings, the Secretary-General is just like everyone else, quickly pinching dumplings in his hands.

Other factory leaders at home are also busy, looking different from their usual office selves. They are much more cordial, much closer, and much more vivid.

Especially the Union Chairman Dou Changfang; he really doesn't know how to wrap dumplings, but he can't bear to be separated from the team members. He is learning to wrap dumplings while sweating on his forehead.

Someone is muttering in their heart, thinking it's funny, saying he isn't anxious, but ashamed, even the Secretary-General can wrap dumplings.

The canteen master is also nagging, saying that the workers on duty this year are the most blessed; he has never seen such a scene.

Wang Shuqiong is sitting beside Li Xuewu, her eyes sweeping over Li Xuewu from time to time, seeing his nimble movements, and even joking: "Does the Secretary-General do housework at home?"

"Looks like he does." Liu Yongnian, sitting opposite, followed her words, raised his head to look at Li Xuewu, smiled, and said: "Look at how beautifully these dumplings are wrapped."

Other organ cadres also looked over; regardless of whether they could tell if the dumplings were beautiful or not, they had to praise them.

Li Xuewu also smiled and didn't care, frankly saying: "I have a lazy side in my personality; I never do housework at home. It's a skill I learned when I was a child."

He placed the dumplings he had just wrapped on the wooden board, and then picked up a dumpling skin, while using chopsticks to smooth the filling, smiling and introducing: "There are three brothers in our family, and one younger sister; I am the second. Being lazy is fine, but if I don't perform during the New Year, I always worry about eating fewer dumplings."

"Hehehe—" Everyone laughed along, although many people didn't understand what the Secretary-General said, it didn't delay them from supporting him.

Wang Shuqiong looked at the opposite side and swept her eyes over the other team members.

She hadn't understood Li Xuewu much before, but the close contact today made her know that this Secretary-General is really unusual, at least his language is sharp enough.

Was the Secretary-General introducing his family situation in the previous sentence?

Other organ cadres listened happily and understood his words literally; can they do that?

Li Xuewu's meaning in these words is already very obvious; it points out the organizational ecology status of the Metallurgical Plant.

Three brothers and one sister; who is he talking about?

Listen to the next sentence: If you don't perform during the New Year, you have to worry about whether you can eat dumplings or not.

Everyone knows who performed, who performed well, and who didn't perform well, and it's all remembered in the Secretary-General's heart.

Don't cry out for grievances when you eat fewer dumplings; who told you not to do this.

Dou Changfang's eyelids twitched, and he didn't raise his eyelids, continuing to struggle with the dumpling skin in his hand.

Liu Yongnian, however, coincidentally exchanged a glance with Wang Shuqiong, then turned his head away and asked for dumpling filling.

Only Yin Zhongyao's expression changed the fastest, so fast that if one didn't pay attention, it would pass.

Now looking at Deputy Director Yin's expression, it is exactly the same as before, but careful people have long discovered something wrong.

Deputy Director Yin's hand strength is sometimes big and sometimes small, and the dumplings are also sometimes big and sometimes small; it is obvious that he understood Li Xuewu's words, and his heart is in chaos.

Is he not letting me eat dumplings?

At eight o'clock, the canteen side entered the finishing work, and the three-wheeled motorcycles pulled the boiler stoves modified from oil drums and bags of frozen dumplings towards the workshop direction with the leaders.

Different from the daytime, at night, several leaders in the factory each led a group and went to several workshops separately.

Li Xuewu led the team to the No. 7 workshop; he first shook hands with the workshop director who greeted him at the door and said a few words, then entered the workshop.

The roar of machinery in the workshop continued, no different from usual.

He walked in the workshop, nodded and greeted the workers who looked over, visited several production situations under the introduction of the workshop director, and finally looked at the operation log.

Just when they were checking, the boiler stove on the tricycle had been moved down, quickly causing a fire.

Add water, blow air, add firewood. Soon, rolling hot air steamed up in the large pot; it was time to put in the dumplings.

These people who put in the dumplings were not the canteen master, but the female comrades in the office; they were more careful.

The large strainer gently stirred the white dumplings, and the fragrance of the dumpling filling had already drifted into the workshop along the workshop door.

The workers had no intention to work anymore; at this time, the workshop director also issued an order to stop work at Li Xuewu's request.

As the roar of machinery stopped, the sound of dumplings being ready came from the door, and the atmosphere in the workshop instantly exploded.

Li Xuewu stood by the large pot with a smile, watching the workers line up to receive dumplings and dumpling soup with their lunch boxes.

The workshop director and the comrades from the Management Committee Office accompanied them on the side, talking, and their words were full of excitement.

"Secretary-General, Happy New Year—"

I don't know who shouted it first; before the workshop director, who was scared to change his face, could go find him, more greetings sounded, all sounding like young people's voices.

When he looked at Li Xuewu again, he saw that the Secretary-General was not angry, nor did he care.

To tell the truth, there is nothing wrong with wishing the leader a Happy New Year; the workshop director was scared, not for this, but because the young man who greeted him first clearly had a Jincheng accent.

Speaking of this, perhaps many people don't understand; what's wrong with a Jincheng accent? Nothing wrong, it's just suspicious of everything.

Secretary-General, Happy New Year—the "ah" at the end of the last word here is a stressed tone, sounding in the ear like teasing the leader, hoping the leader is not good.

And the young man's workmates perhaps also discovered this point, or perhaps it was the resonance of everyone's gratitude, so they joined in the shouting; everyone who went up to receive dumplings would ask a sentence.

It's just that at this time, you can no longer see who the first person to question whether his New Year is good or not is.

How could Li Xuewu not know the Jincheng accent? He just felt it was funny, and the smile on his face became stronger.

When the greeting sound fell a bit, he also learned this accent and asked back: "Everyone, Happy New Year—"

"Hahahaha—" The atmosphere in the workshop was even more joyful, and a worker who ate dumplings almost choked.

One by one, either in their hearts or in their mouths, they whispered that this new leader is quite interesting.

More workers transferred from the Red Star Plant who knew Li Xuewu started to popularize Li Xuewu's "legends" to them, telling them like legendary stories.

While eating dumplings and resting to listen to stories, this New Year's Eve is much more interesting.

Li Xuewu watched the dumplings being distributed, and then left the workshop under the farewell of the workshop director and other workshop cadres, and went to the next workshop.

He only needs to go to two places tonight, taking the boiled dumpling team to distribute hot dumplings into the workers' lunch boxes.

After being busy, when he returned to the large canteen, the time had already reached ten past ten, and everyone was exhausted, especially the canteen staff.

Li Xuewu, on behalf of the Metallurgical Plant management team, sent a red envelope to all personnel working overtime tonight.

The red envelope wrapped in large red paper looked particularly festive in the lively atmosphere tonight.

It felt thin, but the sense of participation and achievement in the heart was thick; wouldn't they come to wrap dumplings without this red envelope? But they were happier with this red envelope.

There wasn't much money in the red envelope, five pieces of small change, which counted as each person getting more than half a catty of pork, but the meaning was different.

Every organ staff member who received a red envelope from Li Xuewu would take the initiative to introduce themselves and then say Happy New Year.

And Li Xuewu would also take the initiative to express sympathy, comment, or praise their performance tonight, which made them even more excited.

Yes, the leader has been paying attention to them; this is still a Group leader, how can they not be excited.

How could Li Xuewu remember these people? He just relied on a vague tone and only praised the good ones.

However, after tonight's wrapping dumplings and sending dumplings activities, the workers in the workshop and the organ finally remembered him, and he also remembered the faces and names he should remember.

Yin Zhongyao and others beside him were plain on the surface, but their hearts had long been turned upside down, and cold sweat was flowing.

Letting them jump up and down like clowns, this Secretary-General responded calmly and still walked his own rhythm.

Look, just one meal of dumplings bought the entire Metallurgical Plant up and down. The key is that the cost of this meal of dumplings was not paid by Li Xuewu; he only wrapped dumplings and sent dumplings, and as a result, all the workers in the factory will only remember his goodness.

You say, is this conspiracy fierce?

The workers' gratitude and surprise will be transformed into motivation, into heart, and firmly support Li Xuewu's guidance.

Even if this meal of dumplings hasn't been digested yet, their passion has subsided, but the situation has reversed.

As long as Li Xuewu persists, the Metallurgical Plant up and down will sooner or later become his one-man show, and no one will be useful.

Is it only like this in the Metallurgical Plant?

How is it possible? They had already heard in the afternoon that the Metallurgical Plant was eating dumplings tonight, and other factories were also eating dumplings, which was specially approved by the Secretary-General as the leader of the Liaodong Industrial Leadership Group.

Li Xuewu sent the Metallurgical Plant's dumplings and was about to set off to other factories to take a turn.

Dumplings were eaten, don't know who sent them out.

Too powerful, this conspiracy makes people unreachable, and they are convinced.

The key is that they made a move, and the Secretary-General hasn't fought back against them yet; where do they have the strength to fight back?

Those two in Beijing are going to have a hard time; Yang Zongfang is still okay, his old father-in-law is competitive, but what about Yang Shuxing?

Also ask the old father-in-law to be competitive?

Li Xuewu's car turned to the Automobile Manufacturing Plant, turned to the Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, turned to the Hardware Manufacturing Plant... and finally turned back to Zhou Wang Yamei's home; the mother and daughter were still waiting for him to have New Year's Eve dinner.

Originally, Zhou Wang Yamei was thinking about letting Mai Qinglan and her daughter come home to spend the New Year together; after discovering the tail following behind, she dismissed this idea.

Li Xuewu wants to play bad, wants to pit people; she can hold on, but she can't let Mai Qinglan be implicated.

From the fact that not a single person from the recycling station has been seen since Li Xuewu came to Steel City, it can be seen that he is seeking a lot.

She has no other requests, only hoping that all these people in the Red Star Iron and Steel Group in Liaodong will open their eyes and never be fools.

These people may not be afraid of death, but she really doesn't want to bury them.

Bang—

Li Xuewu walked into the courtyard, and a bunch of fireworks happened to rise in the distance, very dazzling.

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year." ===== CHAPTER 1392 =====