Chapter 1408: What kind of tactic is this?

"Setting up a joint venture company? What are you thinking?"

Li Li Xuewu put down the materials in his hand and looked at Huang Gan, who was sitting on the other side, and asked: "Your suggestion?"

"Do you think I have the guts?"

Huang Gan picked up his teacup and said righteously: "Who in the Prison Administration doesn't know that I am the most cowardly?"

"You're quite proud of that, aren't you." Li Li Xuewu glanced at him, tapped his finger on the "Plan for Building the Chadian No. 1 Joint Venture Company" placed on the sofa armrest, and said: "However, it's also good. Having self-knowledge is always better than being blindly arrogant."

"Don't need you to damage me. I know how many pounds and ounces I have." Huang Gan took a sip of hot tea, put down the teacup, and said: "This kind of wind and waves is not something a little mud loach like me can stir up."

He shook his head slightly and sighed: "If you don't ride the waves well, it's easy to drown yourself in it."

"Don't blame me for pulling, this matter is ultimately your fault, your Red Star Plant's fault." Huang Gan glanced at Li Li Xuewu and said: "Who told you to develop from a small factory into a big group? It's enough to make everyone jealous—"

"You're like Pigsy playing with a rake—hitting back at the rake!" Li Li Xuewu was amused and looked at him: "Who said we developed from a small factory into a big group?"

"Anyway, I didn't say it, but I heard it." Huang Gan shook his head shamelessly and said: "And you don't know what time it is. The wind changes every moment—"

"First of all, I want to emphasize one point: we were never a small factory to begin with." Li Li Xuewu looked at him and said: "You call an enterprise with over 10,000 people and multiple branch plants a small factory?"

"Secondly, we are not a big group either."

His tone was very firm: "Compared with other group-type enterprises in the country, we are still in the stage of exploring toward a new era and modern enterprise. What kind of big group is that?"

"That's useless for you to tell me!"

Huang Gan sat up straight, looked at Li Li Xuewu, and said: "A piece of news came out from above, saying that the total investment in the construction of the Liangma River Ecological Industrial Zone alone exceeded 10 million yuan last year and the year before. You don't deny the authenticity of this data, right?"

Seeing Li Li Xuewu frown, he said amusingly: "It's not that everyone has drilled into the money eyes; it's that your Red Star Plant has fallen into a gold mine. Everyone really can't stand it."

"And then? Imitating the beauty?" Li Li Xuewu tapped the file beside his hand and asked: "Even units like yours want to get involved?"

"The near water tower gets the moon first—" Huang Gan said with a grin: "Our leader said, anyway, it's all about cooperation, anyway, it's all about developing the economy. Building small factories and small schools is not as thorough as establishing a professional company."

"But it can't be too thorough."

Li Li Xuewu tilted his eyes and said: "If even units like yours come to run enterprises, what are we going to do? Drink the northwest wind?"

"Hey—" Huang Gan waved his hand generously and said: "You don't need to be overly humble, and you don't need to be worried. Even if we run the enterprise very well and very successfully, we won't steal your Red Star Plant's rice bowl."

"Ah—then our Red Star Plant has to thank you for not killing us?"

Li Li Xuewu curled his lips, glanced at him, put the file on the coffee table, pushed it over, and said: "It's not easy for you to come here. Eat before you go."

"Hey!" Huang Gan raised his eyebrows at him and asked: "No—I say—you're really afraid we'll become big and strong!"

"Don't say, I'm really afraid—" Li Li Xuewu picked up his teacup and said lightly: "I'm afraid of bringing fire to burn myself. After all, the Red Star Plant's family business is the result of several generations' joint efforts. It's really a bit unjust to fall on this matter."

"How do you know we will definitely cause trouble!" Huang Gan widened his eyes and asked: "How do you know we will definitely be able to become big and strong?"

"Nonsense, tell me how an enterprise without labor costs can fail." Li Li Xuewu curled his lips and glanced at him: "Your leader's little thoughts, don't say you don't know. If you want to fool others, I don't care, but coming to ask me..."

"You don't have to refuse so decisively—" Huang Gan's tone softened a bit, looking at Li Li Xuewu and asking: "I heard you have joint venture business with Tianjin Aquatic Products. Can't you consider us? We can also cooperate, win-win!"

"The cooperation we have with Tianjin Aquatic Products is a fishery project. What project are we going to cooperate on?" Li Li Xuewu said lightly: "Can't the existing industrial project cooperation satisfy your appetite? Are you going to renovate all the prisons?"

"Sigh—" Huang Gan sighed and said: "If you don't run a house, you don't know the price of firewood and rice. The family is big, the business is big, and the hole is big—"

He patted the back of his hand and said to Li Li Xuewu: "I didn't know logistics was difficult before. I sat in the office and scolded the street, saying this is not easy to use, that is not given."

"Now that it's my turn to manage logistics, I finally know why those materials were often in short supply before."

Huang Gan said with a bitter face: "I have never felt that our unit has been so poor."

"I really believe your ghost talk."

Li Li Xuewu was unmoved. He raised his chin to signal the information on the coffee table and said: "I'll tell you the truth too. In the past, the Red Star Plant could do this, but absolutely not now. You can think about the reason yourself."

"What reason? Foreign trade?"

Huang Gan didn't decide this on a whim this time. He frowned slightly and asked: "Is this taboo very big?"

"Very big, not generally big."

Li Li Xuewu said seriously: "Besides this reason, our Group's operational standards are also improving. Projects below 3 or 4 million basically aren't done now."

His index finger on the sofa armrest moved, signaling the file on the coffee table again: "If you really want to do it, I suggest you consider others."

"Really? 3 or 4 million?"

Huang Gan looked at him with full suspicion and asked: "Have you become so rich now?"

"This has nothing to do with being rich or not; it's an operational cost contradiction." Li Li Xuewu glared at him and explained: "The Group not only raised the project standards this year but also wants to cut some unnecessary, low-efficiency enterprises. You can study them if you are interested. It's just right to integrate them into your joint venture."

"Okay—I understand—" Huang Gan raised his eyebrows and said clearly: "Your stalls are getting bigger and bigger, you can't manage those small projects, and the ones that can be integrated have been integrated. Throwing the scraps down not only doesn't waste but saves management costs. Is that what you mean?"

"Exactly, very correct—"

Li Li Xuewu smiled, put down the teacup in his hand, and said: "We want to invest limited resources into the creation of an infinite modern group enterprise. 'Non-essential, no project' is a standard for the Group's operation this year. I am also powerless."

"Are you powerless?" Huang Gan refused to accept it, took back the file, but felt a bit reluctant, looked at Li Li Xuewu and asked: "You just said you can contact others? Who?"

"That depends on what you want to do."

Li Li Xuewu shrugged his shoulders and said: "I still have a little connection in the capital, and Liaodong is also okay."

"Damn, you've been installed—"

Huang Gan rolled his eyes, threw the file back on the coffee table, and said: "Tell me, what are you thinking? You can't let me return empty-handed after eating a meal, right?"

"Don't play shamelessly with me, I don't eat this set."

Li Li Xuewu glanced at him amusingly, then said seriously: "I think you'd better keep a low profile."

"How do you say that?" Huang Gan raised his eyebrows and asked: "Did you hear any wind?"

"Where is there so much wind—"

Li Li Xuewu said very sincerely: "At any time, seeking stability is always better than being over-aggressive. Your current mentality is not suitable for doing projects. It's too anxious and too utilitarian."

"Listen to me finish first."

He waved his hand to remind Huang Gan not to speak first, and he patiently explained: "This file says to integrate the resources of several farms and fully launch industries such as animal husbandry, breeding, timber, papermaking, printing, carving, clothing, electronics, etc. Not to mention whether the market is good, can you do it?"

"That's right, you have these projects now, but do you have a complete industrial chain?"

Li Li Xuewu spread his hands and said truthfully: "At the very least, how to solve the sales problem of these products?"

"The supply and marketing company can receive these products, but how should the city industry issue production tasks to you? After all, you are not city-affiliated industry, nor are you in the production plan."

He said frankly: "Small-scale production is fine now. If you really want to expand the scale and form an industry, the problems you will face will emerge one after another. Even a slight mistake will be a crisis like a mountain collapse."

"Following your meaning, we are not suitable for large-scale industry?" Huang Gan frowned and asked: "Then we can only do this kind of downstream supplementary labor?"

"The root cause is labor."

Li Li Xuewu pointed at him and reminded: "Your advantage is labor, and your disadvantage is also labor. You will never be able to cultivate technical workers, nor will you be able to cultivate engineers."

"Damn—" Huang Gan frowned and said: "This has become our shackle? Who the hell became an engineer in prison."

This wasn't crooked at all. It was true that he hadn't heard of any prisoner in prison who could become an engineer during labor reform.

"Small also has small benefits. Small scale means fast adjustment, which can quickly adapt to market changes, and it is also convenient for cluster construction."

Li Li Xuewu drank a mouthful of warm tea and said: "Adapt to local conditions. Each region has different industrial characteristics. What you should consider shouldn't be big and beautiful, but small and refined."

He pointed to the plan and said: "There is no problem in setting up a joint venture company. This can solve your production and sales difficulties, but don't cooperate with big enterprises; you will suffer."

"Are you thinking for us now?" Huang Gan looked at him sideways and said: "I'm actually a bit scared."

"That's right, I'm preparing to trick you into being deceived now." Li Li Xuewu smiled and said: "A joint venture company doesn't have to cooperate with big enterprises to have a chance. Fair and equal is the element of cooperation, and the focus is still on the project."

"If you want to engage in a joint venture, you must seek truth from facts and focus your eyes on the fundamental contradiction."

He said seriously: "Either engage in sales, or engage in production, or engage in middlemen to earn the difference."

"The foundation of a joint venture company is to transform commodities into benefits. This process is the main body of company operation."

"You mean—" Huang Gan looked at him hesitantly and asked: "We should still do what we are good at?"

"Just like what I told you initially, you all come to run enterprises, so what are we going to do?"

Li Li Xuewu glanced at him and said lightly: "If one day you are not satisfied with the status quo, will the means of expanding operations and increasing profits become your crime? Do you believe it?"

"Speaking so mysteriously—"

Huang Gan was stubborn in his mouth, but the hesitation in his eyes had betrayed him, because he couldn't guarantee what kind of ghost would be released when Pandora's box was opened.

Can he guarantee himself now? Can he guarantee himself in the future as pure as he is today?

Furthermore, can he guarantee himself, and can he guarantee others?

The frame is set up, the project is operating, so how can he be allowed to control the steering wheel? When this car is driven, no one knows where it will rush to.

Li Li Xuewu's reminder was like a sharp blade, cutting his fantasy into pieces and scattering them into rows of wrinkles on his eyebrows.

Li Li Xuewu held the teacup and drank slowly, giving him enough time to think. This was his close friend.

"Then what do you say we should do?"

Huang Gan recovered and looked at Li Li Xuewu and asked: "Whether it's farms or prisons, everyone is doing their own thing. Projects are launched on their own, regardless of the front or the back, and it's a mess."

He said with worry in his tone: "This is not only a waste of resources, but it will also form an unhealthy competitive atmosphere internally."

"Take animal husbandry and breeding as an example. It seems that all farms are doing it, especially excellent breeds. Some were even stolen from Chadian Farm, and I can't stop them."

Huang Gan frowned and said: "The market is very good now. No matter what you do, you can sell it for money. Not to mention quick return of capital, it can also improve the economic situation of the unit."

"But the current situation is worrying. The leaders see it in their eyes and are anxious in their hearts. This is why they asked us to think of a way quickly."

He pointed to the report and said: "The leader's meaning is to collect the operation of the project together, expand production capacity as much as possible, improve efficiency, reduce waste, prevent mistakes..."

"Internally, engage in a production task system according to local conditions, and externally, engage in a unified sales and planning system. There is no other way."

Li Li Xuewu looked at him and said frankly: "It is obvious that you want to take away the financial management power, then the enthusiasm for production must also decline. This is mainly reflected in the attitude of management personnel. There is no solution, only strict management and strict control in the system."

"Then who do you want me to cooperate with?" Huang Gan understood and frowned and asked: "Could it be..."

"Hehe, the sauerkraut and pork in our factory's reception room is a must. Since you have finally come here, you must not miss it."

"Hurry, hurry, I'm going to be late—"

Li Shu got up very early today. Because of the teacher's instructions when school was over yesterday, she went to sleep after finishing dinner when she got home.

If it weren't for Gu Ning accompanying her to play for a while for fear that she would have indigestion and stomach discomfort, she might have gone to sleep at 7:30.

Why go to sleep so early?

Because sleeping early means getting up early. Li Shu got up early to prepare for today's artistic performance. She had two programs!

Er Ya got up early enough, but Li Shu got up even earlier than her. Before dawn, she wanted to call her up to prepare breakfast.

Er Ya laughed and said she was no different from Zhou Bapi, making workers get up and work in the fields before dawn.

Li Shu didn't know who Zhou Bapi was, and she didn't care about her second aunt's joke. She only felt that she was the protagonist today.

Is it over after calling the second aunt?

Of course not. Little Aunt Zhao Zhao Ya Ping also had to get up, because she was afraid that her little aunt would be lazy and oversleep, delaying her meal.

Delaying the meal means delaying the performance. Everyone must be prepared today and make way for her performance.

Li Shu had also reached the stage of character formation. This little girl was very proud. On one hand, she showed an attitude of not caring much about her performance to her family, but in actual action, she emphasized that everyone should pay enough attention to her performance.

When Zhao Zhao Ya Ping was called up, she was still confused. She couldn't believe that Li Shu would suspect her of being lazy.

A crime added by Shu... no, a crime added by Shu, why worry about not having words.

Picked up from home by her eldest sister, and then came here, Zhao Zhao Ya Ping dared to raise both hands to guarantee that she cherished this hard-won opportunity to study and yearned for life in the city.

She knew this was the home of the "second brother" she had met several times, and she was very familiar with the second sister-in-law.

At first, she didn't understand why her eldest sister sent her to live here, until her father came to see her and said that sentence.

Children of poor families take charge early.

Zhao Zhao Ya Ping's life at home was better than Er Ya's, but it was really much worse than the dolls in the city.

She was sensible enough. Even if Gu Ning hadn't directed her and hadn't let her do any work, she did everything she could.

She got along very well with Er Ya. The two sisters now lived in one room and helped each other in doing things.

Regarding Li Shu, Zhao Zhao Ya Ping was envious. This little girl who was obviously not the daughter of the second brother and second sister-in-law had obtained a life she had never thought of, and it was her dream life goal.

Besides housework, the help she needed at home was this little girl.

Although Li Shu was in kindergarten and had her own tutor, she was with her when studying.

After coming to the city, she was taken by Big Brother Shen Guodong to see the principal of the Red Star United Middle School. Principal Ran arranged for her to transfer, and she studied in the first semester of the first year of middle school in the commune, and now she started reading the second semester.

Very obviously, although the knowledge learned in the commune was the same as that of the United Middle School, the progress and quality were completely different.

She was an excellent student in the commune, but her grades in the United Middle School were just average. The opening test made her dumbfounded.

So she, who wanted to be strong, performed very hard and seriously, studying very late every day and getting up very early.

Li Shu called her up, saying she was afraid that she would get up late, which suddenly gave Zhao Zhao Ya Ping a feeling of being wronged.

If you say Li Shu is afraid of her mother and doesn't dare to call Gu Ning to get up? That would be a big mistake.

That's right, she didn't dare to call her mother to get up, but she went up a few times, lay at the door and looked, didn't speak, and went back and forth three or four times. Gu Ning didn't want to get up, but had to.

No one can provoke Li Shu who has a performance task.

Daddy couldn't come back to watch her performance, but Mommy could. To satisfy her daughter's desire to win and desire to perform, Gu Ning had to ask for a leave of absence from the department director for a morning.

Department Director Zhang also found it funny. Of course, she knew Li Shu, and then thought about Li Li Xuewu who worked in other places. It was really not easy for Gu Ning to bring up the child alone, so of course, she had to give this leave.

So Li Shu's family and friends group today was very large. Mommy could go, Second Aunt could go, and even Teacher Xiaoxiao had to come. Only Little Aunt couldn't go because she had to go to school. She expressed regret for her little aunt for not being able to watch her performance on the spot and hear her sing.

Zhao Zhao Ya Ping's only regret was that she didn't pull Li Shu to study a little later last night, so she could get up a little later.

Everyone had plenty of time to prepare this morning, and this was done under Li Shu's repeated urging.

In the past, Li Shu was the most dawdling one in the family, and everything had to be urged before it could be done. Today, she was the creditor.

After the family finished breakfast and were all ready, looking at the time, there was half an hour before kindergarten started.

So Gu Ning took a few people and sat in the living room, staring at each other, looking at Li Shu without speaking.

Li Shu had no pressure at all. She was going to perform on stage. How could this little attention scare her?

Li Li Xuewu said his daughter had a big heart. As long as she didn't care, she would absolutely not care.

March 13, Thursday.

The spring artistic performance activity of the Haiyuncang Seventh Academy Family Kindergarten for the new semester officially started at 9:00 in the morning.

With the help of the teachers, the children prepared a special stage and rehearsed many positive songs and dances.

Following the chorus of the song "We are Successors of Communism" in the first group of performances, the "The East is Red" chorus squad walked to the center of the courtyard to perform.

Li Shu was a member of the "The East is Red" chorus squad. She wore a small red jacket made by her grandmother, covered with a white apron unified by the kindergarten, and looked extremely cute.

The parents stood or sat in the audience, and whenever a child came up to perform, they would give warm applause.

Being an audience for children wasn't a task that only existed in later generations. This era also paid attention to parent-child interaction, but it wasn't that frequent, only once or twice a semester.

Once in March to welcome spring, once on June 1st Children's Day, and once on October 1st National Day, and that was it.

It was a bit strenuous for children to sing the song "The East is Red" because there wasn't such a majestic voice, but it sounded milky and had a vigorous feeling.

The chorus ended, and Li Shu came down with the children without showing any nervous demeanor.

It was just that in the performance just now, she was as indifferent as ever. No wonder the teacher asked her to stand in the front row to lead the singing.

When the program "I Have a Little Crayon" ended, the little announcer introduced in a milky voice: "Next, please invite Li Shu from Class 1 to perform on stage. The song she is going to sing is... My Motherland and Me—"

"My motherland and me~ cannot be separated for a moment, no matter where I go~ a song of praise flows out~"

When Li Shu sang the first sentence with a crisp and pleasant voice, Teacher Xiaoxiao's accordion accompaniment sounded, and the moving feeling that made one's scalp numb instantly infected the whole scene.

That's right, "A Letter to My Daughter" was changed to a name after being organized and refined by Xiaoxiao. It was the first sentence of the song. Xiaoxiao felt this was more suitable.

"I sing of every mountain~ I sing of every river~ curling smoke~ small village~ a rut on the road..."

"Shh—talk about it when we get back to the office."

Ma Baosen just wanted to speak, but was blocked by his master, signaling him not to talk here.

The weekly work meeting of the Steel City Metallurgical Plant had just ended, and Ma Baosen came to find his master.

And Zhang En Yuan, who participated in the meeting record work and attended the office meeting for the first time, appeared very cautious and careful.

Sun Jia, who was performing the same task, glanced at them, nodded, and went toward the office direction.

Ma Baosen stood on one side, turned his head and looked deeply at the back of Sun Jia, the deputy director of the office, who was leaving, and then followed his master to wait for the office leaders to leave before returning to the office.

Their office was next to the Secretary-General's office, and Ma Baosen's desk was opposite his master's desk.

In Ma Baosen's consciousness, the thought his master instilled in him should be self-restraint and courtesy, but he was young and more jumpy, and sometimes he couldn't take care of it, and he was often warned by his master.

Why talk about things in the office?

Because the establishment of the Liaodong Industrial Leadership Group Office was almost all outsiders, and only they were the local residents.

The director, Zhang Jing, had a good temper, and Zhou Peilan and others were very young, so everyone got along extremely well.

With the Secretary-General here, who would dare to explode?

So some things can be said in the office, no need to be afraid of these people spreading it, or stirring up trouble.

"Master, really in the meeting..."

Ma Baosen asked his master in surprise in a low voice: "How come I don't see any anger on that person's face."

"You can see it, then he is not your leader." Zhang En Yuan scolded his apprentice, glanced at the direction of the Secretary-General's office, and then sat back in his seat.

As long as there were no instructions or requirements from the Secretary-General, he would work here, and he also had a lot of text work to do.

"Are you talking about Vice Director Yin?"

Wang Min got up from his seat, took his teacup to pour hot water, and said jokingly: "He can be called an old artist. Mount Tai collapses in front of him without changing his face..."

"Wang Min—" Zhou Peilan frowned and glared at him, reminding: "You dare to talk nonsense like this?"

"Hey, hey—" Wang Min smiled embarrassedly and said: "My mouth, I was wrong—"

He waved his hand at Zhang En Yuan and said: "Sorry, Deputy Director Zhang, I was talking nonsense."

Zhang En Yuan glanced outside the door, raised his eyebrows and reminded: "If you do this again, the Secretary-General will talk to you."

"I was wrong, I will definitely change—"

Wang Min raised his hand to make a guarantee, and the other hand held the tea jar and said: "I was just expressing my feelings."

"You don't even compare to Comrade Ma Baosen."

Zhou Peilan curled her lips, glanced at him, then lowered her head and continued her work.

Wang Min leaned toward Zhang En Yuan and asked in a low voice: "Did they really argue at the office meeting?"

"Just different opinions, what's there to argue about."

Zhang En Yuan explained lightly: "Vice Director Yin proposed a major organizational personnel adjustment, and Vice Director Yang felt there was no need to make a big fuss. The two of them spoke a few words about this."

"Which Vice Director Yang?" Wang Min asked in surprise: "Is it Vice Director Yang Yang Zongfang?"

"Hmm, do you think it could be another Vice Director Yang?" Zhang En Yuan looked at him amusingly and said: "Don't spread this outside, be careful I give you small shoes to wear."

"Hehe, Deputy Director Zhang is a good person, he wouldn't give me small shoes to wear." Wang Min took the thermos from the tea cabinet and refilled hot water for Zhang En Yuan's teacup, saying: "You tell us, why did Vice Director Yin think of moving personnel?"

"Work needs—" Zhang En Yuan glanced at his apprentice Ma Baosen and replied to Wang Min: "Thank you."

"Hey, you're welcome." Wang Min put away the thermos, looked outside cautiously, and asked in a low voice: "What is the Secretary-General's opinion? Does he not want to move the current personnel structure?"

"Moving is definitely going to happen." Li Muqin, who had been writing materials behind the desk, stood up, participated, and said in a low voice: "Organizational structure reform has become a foregone conclusion, and organizational personnel must be reorganized accordingly."

"And then?" Wang Min leaned his arms on the desk and asked Zhang En Yuan: "Deputy Director Zhang, introduce it to us."

"The Secretary-General's meaning is to move, but not to move like this." Zhang En Yuan thought for a while and nodded, saying: "He doesn't agree with one-size-fits-all, nor does he agree with taking it all in one pot."

Zhang En Yuan thought for a while and picked what could be said: "The Secretary-General's meaning is that organizational personnel adjustments will no longer be announced uniformly at a big meeting, but dynamic inspection and management."

"What does that mean?" Ma Baosen looked at his master blankly and asked: "Isn't this still going to move? Change the way of thinking?"

"The difference is big—" Li Muqin raised his head and explained in a low voice: "Dynamic inspection and management don't need to bear the mistakes in work connection caused by too large organizational personnel changes, and it also puts an end to some shady dealings."

He raised his eyebrows at Wang Min, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Zhang En Yuan was the oldest in the office, but he found it funny to see these young people learning the appearance of being old and steady. Is this maturity actually a new mask in the office?

"Master?" Ma Baosen didn't quite understand what Li Muqin said, so he looked at his master for help.

Zhang En Yuan thought for a while and nodded, saying: "The Secretary-General should have this consideration, but it's not clear."

He reminded the few people gathered here: "It's best not to discuss this matter outside. Try not to talk about it in our office. There's no need, it's easy to cause criticism."

"Indeed, this is not our office's business."

Zhou Peilan raised her head and looked at the few people here and said: "Just do your own thing, why do you have to get involved in everything."

"This is called observing the six roads and listening to all directions—"

Wang Min turned his head and glanced at her, raised his eyebrows and said: "If you can't understand these things and can't study them clearly, you won't be able to do things well."

"Crooked reasoning—" Zhou Peilan glanced at them, lowered her head and continued to look at the documents, and said: "Director Zhang is coming back, so you are lazy."

Wang Min and Li Muqin looked at each other, smiled bitterly, and dispersed. This Zhou Peilan was too fond of meddling.

Seeing the two leave, Zhang En Yuan also signaled Ma Baosen to continue working and didn't say anything more to him.

He was in the meeting room at the time and was more intuitive than what he just said. He could clearly feel the confused expression on Vice Director Yin's face after his opinion was rejected by the Secretary-General. It wasn't faked; it was that he couldn't figure out the Secretary-General's tactics.

After returning from Fengcheng, Hu Ke contacted Li Li Xuewu for the first time, but they talked about the rectification work of the coal mining industry.

On the day the Metallurgical Plant accepted the sixth batch of metallurgical technology and equipment from the Santa Ya Group, Li Li Xuewu was still at the project site when the phone rang.

"Brother, sorry to bother you. I don't know if you are busy."

Hu Ke spoke very politely on the phone, but the form of address showed closeness. This was the form of address they agreed upon after they met last time, and Li Li Xuewu didn't emphasize or correct him.

He was much younger than Hu Ke, so calling him "little brother" was completely appropriate.

Actually, they should be called comrades in this era, but the phone call was made out of personal feelings and connection, so calling him "brother" to talk about work was naturally much more convenient.

Li Li Xuewu smiled and glanced at the site outside the window, and said on the phone: "I invited you to come but you didn't. Today the rolling steel project is landing, wouldn't it be just right for you to come here and take a look?"

"Oh, regret, regret." Hu Ke kept saying regret on the phone, and explained: "I'm really busy. I just came back from northern Liaoning, and I'm galloping—"

He sighed and asked: "Your Steel City Metallurgical Plant has introduced advanced technology one after another over the past few years. Have you basically digested it? When can you complete the technical integration?"

"Within a year or two, there has been a procedure."

Li Li Xuewu explained: "From the beginning, the Austrian oxygen top-blown steelmaking technology to the strip steel rolling technology introduced from the Ugly Country, the industrial technology is being integrated."

Actually, the strip steel rolling technology and equipment didn't fall into the Metallurgical Plant, but into the workshop of the Red Star Steel City Rolling Steel Plant next to the Metallurgical Plant. The two sides were one industrial body.

When selecting the site and designing the Steel City Rolling Steel Plant, Li Li Xuewu considered discussing the industrial structure of combining technology and production with the Group Management Committee.

The Metallurgical Plant's technological reform and plant construction had to be adjusted according to the procedure and order of technology introduction, while the construction of the Rolling Steel Plant had to be docked with the progress of the Metallurgical Plant in advance.

That was to achieve the effect of seamless connection between some projects of the two factories and realize the shortest transportation distance.

Moving the Red Star Rolling Steel Plant to Steel City and combining it with the Steel City Metallurgical Plant, which had completed technological and production reform, saved the Red Star Steel Group at least over one million yuan in transportation costs every year compared to before. Saying that the relocation and construction costs were high, it was actually worth it.

The products from the Metallurgical Plant were just raw materials. Only after being plasticized by the Rolling Steel Plant were they real industrial standard parts.

The steelmaking plant in Liaodong wasn't eye-catching before. When the Red Star Plant acquired this factory, it was a small factory.

It was just that after growing for so many years, plus the breakthroughs achieved by the reform in the past few years, the Metallurgical Plant became a leader in Liaodong's industry in the fields of special steel and non-ferrous metal smelting.

If paired with a modern, high-capacity Rolling Steel Plant, Hu Ke believed that Liaodong industry would definitely cultivate more downstream industries of the steel industry.

Only with industries will there be enterprises, only with enterprises will there be economy, and only with economy will there be construction.

Therefore, supporting enterprises to carry out industrial construction is a good policy that benefits the industrial system. He called Li Li Xuewu for this point, wanting to talk about the development and reform of the coal mining industry.

Li Li Xuewu first listened to his evaluation and worry about the rectification work of the coal mining industry in Liaodong, and then listened to him talk about the situation of several mines of the Red Star United Energy Development General Company's mining company that were under construction. In contrast, the pros and cons were revealed.

"Three feet of ice is not formed in a single day." He replied to Hu Ke: "The Red Star management model was not built in a day either. You still have to be a little patient."

"I have patience, but I'm afraid there's no time—" Hu Ke said with worry on the phone: "The situation in the coal mining industry I introduced to you last time was just a one-sided word I saw from the report. This time I saw it with my own

"Which industry doesn't have problems? An industry without problems doesn't exist. The goal of our work is to solve these problems, wouldn't you agree?"

Li Li Xuewu first comforted him with that, then said: "I've been in Liaodong for a month now, and I still haven't been to the mines to take a look. I might go over there at the end of this month."

"Advanced management models are a necessary factor I can think of to improve the production capacity of the mining industry," Hu Ke said over the phone. "I called you to ask if the speed and depth of mining integration can be accelerated, to demonstrate the superiority of the Red Star management model as soon as possible and increase its influence."

"I'd like to as well, but I don't have that kind of ability."

Li Li Xuewu said with a bitter smile: "To put it bluntly, the Red Star management model relies on the group's promotion and adjustment of personnel reform, increasing the intensity of talent introduction and training. It's just that this training policy has been implemented for less than three years; I'm afraid we're not quite up to the task yet."

"Sigh—" Hu Ke sighed over the phone and said: "It's just as you said, ice three feet thick is not the result of one day's cold."

"Take it slow. If the status quo is to be changed, it can only be done through talent cultivation. After all, things are done by people."

Li Li Xuewu responded: "I would very much hope that you could act as a bridge to introduce outstanding students from Liaodong to the Red Star Steel Group for tempering. I also hope you can recommend Liaodong's industrial schools for broader and deeper cooperation with us."

"No problem, this is a good thing," Hu Ke smiled and said: "Even if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have. School-enterprise cooperation can absolutely be launched. We can consider ourselves to have the advantage of being close to the water. The industrial enterprises your group has in Liaodong can all be included in the scope of this cooperation. Let's find a time to sit down and talk about it."

"Then I shall wait for the good news."

Li Li Xuewu said with a smile: "Our group's Deputy Director Gu is in charge of this work. I will report this matter to her later. When you have time, I will invite her to Liaodong, and we can engage in school-enterprise cooperation, work together on this grand undertaking, and promote the talent cultivation mechanism."

"Good, good, I'll handle it. Wait for my news," Hu Ke agreed repeatedly over the phone, and at the same time said: "This year should be the final period for the implementation of assignments for university graduates. You should be prepared on your end as well."

"Thank you, thank you Director Hu."

Hearing him say this, Li Li Xuewu realized there must be definitive news. Thinking about it, it made sense; it was already March.

The spring of March returns and cannot be held back; the spring returns, but the spring mood is hard to convey.