Chapter 1554: Fengcheng

Even though Li Xuewu organized a management meeting for the United Industrial units as soon as he returned to Steel City, and repeatedly emphasized the importance of organizational discipline and safety management in the meeting, and focused on promoting the spirit of the instructions of Comrade Li Huai De, the director of the group management committee, on organizational management work.

But in early February, on the 2nd, four days before New Year's Eve, a safety production accident still occurred in the Steel Auto assembly workshop. The situation reported was one dead and one injured.

Around the New Year, it was naturally not easy to handle such things. Li Xuewu met the family members who came to handle the aftermath at the gate when he rushed to Steel Auto.

That crying and howling grief would move anyone who saw it, not to mention he was the main person in charge of Liaodong Industry.

Lu Yuanshen had a bitter face, took the management office of Steel Auto and several workshop directors to wait at the door of the assembly workshop for him, and had already had a feeling of anxiety in his heart.

Those who entered the group after 1968 hadn't experienced Li Xuewu's high-pressure attitude when he was in charge of safety management work, but Lu Yuanshen, who was in the main position at the time, knew it.

Li Xuewu's attitude toward safety management was always to emphasize the one-vote veto system, that is, if there was an accident, he would be dismissed.

He didn't want to be this villain, and didn't want to add trouble to the cadres below during the New Year, but who would pity him?

The group had just completed the formal organizational construction work, and it was the critical period for relevant positions to enter the assessment period, and such a big problem occurred on his side.

No need to say, once a safety accident occurred, even if he had a deeper relationship and a more reliable background, it would be useless.

Influenced by Li Xuewu's attitude toward safety management work, and stimulated by the positive feedback from the broad masses of employees on the Red Star Factory's emphasis on safety, old Li supported the one-vote veto system.

That is to say, he could at most keep his current position, and it was impossible to talk about progress anymore.

There was no such thing as offsetting merits and demerits in this era. Even if he found a relationship to praise himself into a flower in the newspaper, it would be useless. This was a hard indicator.

The Volga M24 flashed its headlights twice, forcing the welcoming cadres to retreat one step.

When Lu Yuanshen slightly bowed his body to open the car door, Li Xuewu had already pushed the car door and got off.

"Secretary-General…"

"Talk about the specific situation first." Li Xuewu didn't give him a chance to perform, and asked straightforwardly, "Has the injured one been sent to the hospital?"

"The ambulance has already picked up the person."

Seeing his attitude, Lu Yuanshen felt that although his face didn't deliberately maintain seriousness and fierceness, the meaning of dissatisfaction had already made his liver and gallbladder tremble.

If there was any other way, he wouldn't want to meet Li Xuewu in this situation, and even less want him to raise the butcher knife.

Who knew what the group's attitude toward Liaodong Industry was at this time? The news he could receive was that it was not clear.

The industrial management status of the group in Liaodong at this time was very different from when Li Xuewu came to preside over the work. The organizational ecology and industrial environment had long undergone earth-shaking changes.

Back then, he could still seek the support of group leaders through his own relationships and obtain more autonomous permissions.

Now? Without Li Xuewu's approval, who dared to move a knife on the cake of Liaodong Industry.

Organizational personnel had appeared in the situation where Li Xuewu approved whatever he wanted since the middle of last year.

Even when there was a card, it was only slow in time, and there hadn't been a situation where his signature was void.

Even if he was the main person in charge of the group's heavy industry and emerging industrial industries, and even if he contributed to the rise and development of Steel City Auto and made achievements, whether these were worth money in Li Xuewu's place was another matter.

Just from the point that Li Xuewu didn't even use him to open the car door when he got off, one could see that his situation was in danger.

Pressure was transmitted layer by layer. Problems occurred below, his pressure doubled, and problems occurred on his side, Li Xuewu's pressure was also very great, so he couldn't blame Li Xuewu for not recognizing human favors.

"I have already arranged for colleagues from the trade union and the office to follow to the hospital, and also arranged for the United Hospital to do its best to rescue."

He tried hard to make up for his mistakes, his voice was a bit dull, and the expression on his face was very low.

Li Xuewu glanced at him and walked toward the assembly workshop. At this time, the scene had been isolated, the production line was stopped, and workers were standing on tiptoe outside the security point to look over here.

Li Xuewu didn't stop his footsteps, only glanced at the surrounding employees, frowned, and entered the workshop.

The situation at the scene didn't need to be introduced. Even someone like Li Xuewu who hadn't done workshop management could see what had happened.

Lu Yuanshen's face became more gloomy. He stood beside Li Xuewu and reported softly, "The deceased worker is named Chen Shuping, with 13 years of work experience. The workshop safety administrator combined with the reports of the employees at the scene and the situation at the scene to make a preliminary judgment. It should be that her hair was rolled into the reel."

Did this still need the safety administrator to judge? Li Xuewu could see it. The scene was really too miserable.

So many people gathered in the workshop, and those employees didn't dare to say a word, looking at them with sadness in their hearts.

"Group leader Liu Jin, in order to save people, his right arm below the elbow was also rolled into the machine…"

Lu Yuanshen stood there, feeling the pressure from Li Xuewu's silent state, and his voice became lower and lower.

Li Xuewu rushed over as soon as he heard the report, but medical staff and security personnel arrived earlier than him.

Several working parties were investigating and taking pictures at the scene. Their group only stood on the periphery and watched. The light of the flash illuminated Li Xuewu's gloom. The Steel Auto cadres standing behind them were even more silent.

"Organize the aftermath work first."

Li Xuewu turned around, looked at Lu Yuanshen, and instructed, "Properly settle, and try to appease the family members' emotions."

"Understood." Lu Yuanshen looked up at him, his eyes having a bit of numbness and worry.

Li Xuewu sighed deeply. Standing here, what else could he say? Even if he scolded him seriously, what was the use of scolding those cadres behind him.

"The most urgent work at present is to find out the cause of the accident as soon as possible, restore production, and eliminate the impact."

He raised his finger and pointed at Lu Yuanshen, emphasizing, "Every safety production accident should ring a warning bell for you, for Steel Auto, and for everyone in the group."

Lu Yuanshen was silent. The day before yesterday, he was still representing Steel Auto at the meeting, saying he would strictly guard the safety pass, but today he was slapped in the face. It was really uncomfortable.

Li Xuewu didn't scold him in front of the cadres below, which gave him face, but he became even more uncomfortable.

"Don't let the family members be sad again."

Before leaving, Li Xuewu reached out and patted his shoulder, left the people from the safety management office, turned around, and left the factory building, got in the car, and left.

He had to come to the scene to take a look, but it was not suitable to stay for too long, otherwise Lu Yuanshen wouldn't be able to do his work.

Before the cause of the accident was investigated clearly, it was even more inconvenient for him to meet the family members directly.

He was the person in charge of group industrial management in Liaodong, not the person in charge of Steel Auto. Steel Auto was an independent production unit belonging to the group, and had the responsibility and obligation to manage and bear safety production accidents. Preliminary investigation and accident handling were naturally handled by Steel Auto itself.

The industrial management office arranged for specialists to only carry out guidance and supervision work, and would not intervene too much.

This kind of accident was the most heartbreaking. No matter whose reason it was, not wearing a work cap when going to work, hair rolled into the machine, the dead one had to bear a certain responsibility.

The group had long carried out responsibility division and safety management and discipline training for safety production accidents. If it were in the past, this kind of thing would have been handled by the normal compensation procedure. Now it wouldn't work.

Before the accident investigation ended, the unit only undertook rescue and assistance tasks. Only after the accident investigation results came out would compensation and handling be carried out for relevant responsibilities.

That is to say, no party could retreat unscathed in this accident. The dead one and the injured one had to bear a certain responsibility, and the compensation would definitely not be much.

Pursuing the production responsibility of employees was an important measure to actively promote production safety management. It was necessary to force the responsibility of managers, and also to standardize the consciousness of producers.

Safety management was never one-sided. Only by the joint efforts of managers and producers could safety accidents be prevented and stopped.

Li Xuewu returned from the Steel Auto scene and called Su Wide, who was in charge of the group's safety production work.

On the phone, he reported the basic situation of the accident in detail, as well as Steel Auto's handling means.

Su Wide didn't have a good attitude. Although he didn't say anything too dirty on the phone, it was disgusting enough.

Li Xuewu was too lazy to pay attention to him, reported to him by phone as usual, and arranged for the office to report in the form of an official document. This was the procedure and couldn't be off by a bit.

That was, safety management work was upgraded before and after the New Year, otherwise Steel Auto could handle one dead and one injured.

Now he had to preside over the accident assessment and handling work. That is to say, he had the right to put forward decisive opinions on the responsibilities that Lu Yuanshen needed to bear.

Otherwise, why would Lu Yuanshen's liver and gallbladder tremble when facing him? Whether his hand was light or heavy all depended on his attitude.

The phone call to Su Wide was just hung up when Dong Wenxue's phone call came. He had a certain influence in Steel City and naturally could know about this kind of thing for the first time.

"Is the problem serious or not?"

Dong Wenxue was involved in the No. 4 furnace problem and could be said to be unable to protect himself, yet he was still worried about him.

Li Xuewu sighed and said, "The deceased female worker might have to bear the main responsibility, the on-site safety management might have to bear the secondary responsibility, and the person in charge of the main responsibility might have to bear joint responsibility."

He had managed safety for many years, and could determine the responsibility division just by the basic situation of the scene.

He wouldn't say these things to Lu Yuanshen, but he didn't need to hide them from Dong Wenxue. It was introducing the basic situation of the accident from the perspective of a manager.

He couldn't introduce the miserable situation of the scene to him on the phone.

Dong Wenxue also sighed. What else could he say? The situation was difficult, and waves rose again.

Seeing him silent, Li Xuewu had to comfort him instead. Li Huai De transferred him back to the capital to control the Liangma River Industrial Zone, but Su Wide made trouble, and now he had become an existence drifting on the edge of the group management committee.

Although old Li supported him in presiding over technology and project implementation, it wasn't a long-term plan.

Zhang Jinsong really didn't think about controlling the Liangma River Industrial Zone, but after a long time, it was inevitable that he would have other thoughts.

Whether Dong Wenxue could return to the management core as soon as possible depended on how long the processing results of the 4th furnace would take to come out.

As long as this storm didn't land for a day, Dong Wenxue would have to drift on the side, fearing that he would drift away.

"Why did you call at this time?"

Li Xuewu looked at the phone in his hand with some surprise, especially surprised that it was Yu Li who called.

He had just returned from the capital. If there was anything, she should have talked to him when he was at the club.

"Uncle Lou received an invitation from the association, asking him to participate in a symposium. He wants to ask for your opinion."

Although Yu Li's words were very vague, the tone was very straightforward, stating Lou Yu's thoughts.

Li Xuewu raised an eyebrow and asked back, "Why isn't it him who called?"

"Uncle Lou struggled for a whole night, and went back to the mountain early this morning." Yu Li hesitated for a moment and tried to ask, "Do you think the current situation is for them…"

"If he wants to know, let him call me." Li Xuewu didn't wait for her to finish, and opened his mouth, "He knows my phone number."

Perhaps Lou Yu not taking the initiative to call him was actually a choice, a kind of answer he followed his heart to make.

"…That." Yu Li was afraid that he would suddenly hang up the phone impatiently, and said hesitantly, "Looking at him, it seems he wants to go. He circled around my side twice."

"What does it have to do with circling around whether he goes or not."

Li Xuewu changed to holding the phone with the other hand and said to the phone, "Don't worry about his affairs."

Saying so, he seemed to remember something and asked, "Do you like the snow on Qianshan or the snow on Changbaishan?"

"Ah?" Yu Li didn't understand what kind of ghost talk he was saying, froze for a moment, and then curled her lip, "Whatever you like, I like."

"Is that so?" Li Xuewu didn't seem to doubt it, and said with a smile, "Actually, I don't really like snowy weather."

"It seems you already have an arrangement in your heart?" Yu Li added, "An arrangement for us?"

"Wait for notification, do the work in your hands first."

Li Xuewu said indifferently, "If you can choose, I still like the snow on Qianshan, and you don't hate it either, right?"

"Heh heh—" Li Xuewu chuckled, not giving her the answer she wanted, "Alright, the car is here, I have to go to work, just like this."

Before Yu Li could react, he had already hung up the phone.

Actually, Li Xuewu hoped more that Yu Li would go to Jicheng. With Xilin's success in Jicheng, he believed that after Yu Li's independent training, she would also grow into a strong woman.

However, looking at Yu Li's interest and willingness, it wasn't very strong. She didn't seem to care much about money and career.

If it weren't for helping himself, perhaps she wouldn't have worked so hard to run the club, and herself.

Regarding what Lou Yu was struggling with, Li Xuewu also received relevant documents and corresponding feedback in Steel City.

Actually, it had a certain connection with the documents he received a few days ago, or perhaps it could be said… East Wind? West Wind?

He, who had a certain understanding of this period of history, knew that starting this year, some big leaders would return to their posts.

Lou Yu, this kind of "small character," didn't need to think about it. The wind of thawing, no matter how warm, couldn't blow to his position.

To say something disrespectful, people are old and cunning, horses are old and slippery. Lou Yu had struggled, and what he struggled with was still his own opinion, but through his inner choice and past experience, he could still distinguish whether it was dangerous or not.

Actually, even if he came to call and ask, Li Xuewu might not be able to give the correct answer. He was already in the aftermath when he started working in his previous life, so where would he remember whether this wind had such killing intent, and he couldn't remember these people.

So whether to go or not, even if he had to ask, the answer Li Xuewu could give was to avoid it if he could.

Going wasn't the protagonist either. Was it interesting to be a background board?

Early spring still brought the wind's greetings. It was the wind of technology, and also the wind of the era.

Li Xuewu didn't notice it. It was during the lunch break in the big office that there was a discussion, saying that a certain factory independently designed and manufactured a 20-meter tower axial flow fan.

What kind of thing is this?

If you don't understand, you really don't know. If you understand, you know it doesn't have much to do with yourself. Just know that technology is advancing.

It was too backward in the past, and the starting point was low. Once the industry began to show a state of rise, technological development would show a state of eruption.

The appearance was the new breakthroughs in technology often publicized in newspapers.

In later generations, there was a period of special attention to storage technology, so that year, news about the progress of storage technology often appeared in newspapers, and the later lithography machines were the same.

Seeing him pass by the office door, Zhou Peilan took the initiative to carry her lunch box and chased him out.

"Secretary-General, want to taste it?"

She smiled and gestured to the lunch box in her hand, saying, "I wrapped it myself, radish and mutton dumplings."

"Oh? You have this skill?"

Li Xuewu looked at her with a smile and asked, "Why did you think of eating dumplings?"

"Does eating dumplings have to have a reason?"

Zhou Peilan smiled, raised her chin, and reminded him, "Leader, don't you even look at the calendar? It's the beginning of spring today."

"Is that so—" Li Xuewu really didn't feel the passage of time. He walked into the office, pointed his finger at the calendar pressed under the big glass on the desk, and said, "Time passes really fast."

"In a blink of an eye, a year has passed." Zhou Peilan followed in, holding the lunch box with both hands, and sighed with the same tone, "We have been in Steel City for a year. Time passes really fast."

"Any harvest this year?"

Li Xuewu looked at her with a smile and asked, "Wouldn't it be that you only harvested love?"

"Even if I only harvested love, doesn't that count as a harvest?" Zhou Peilan was a straightforward girl. Hearing his teasing, she didn't feel shy and performed very naturally.

Li Xuewu admired girls who faced feelings squarely. As the saying goes, brave people enjoy the world first.

People who bravely admit love also enjoy love first.

"Drink something? Coffee?" Li Xuewu walked to the tea cabinet, took two cups, and gestured, "Produced in Annan, the sales office sent it to me, saying it was to let friends from East Germany taste it to see if it fits their taste."

"Annan? East Germany?" Zhou Peilan was Li Xuewu's economic specialist. From these two words, she could understand what he was talking about.

"Starting trade with East Germany?"

"Of course, there's only morning and evening left—"

Li Xuewu's method of making coffee was very bad. He didn't like this thing in his previous life, and he was still the same in this life.

As for what bitter coffee, or adding milk, adding sugar, these modulation means, in his view, it was the difference between putting salt or sugar in tofu brain.

Is the tofu brain you drink sweet or salty?

"Transporting coffee from Annan to East Germany?" Zhou Peilan asked suspiciously, "Can you make money?"

"Believe me, businessmen will never do a losing business." Li Xuewu walked over with two cups of coffee, gave one to her, and gave the other to her too.

"If you tell him to kill, he won't do it, but if you tell him to empty the other party's wallet, he will definitely be willing."

After bullshitting, he raised his hand to gesture to the two cups of coffee and said, "Taste it, they said these are two flavors."

Watching Zhou Peilan pick up the teacup and taste it, seeming to have a lot of flavor, Li Xuewu shook his head slightly and said, "Why did I only taste one kind of bitterness? Could it be that my life is bitter?"

"Pfft—cough cough—" Zhou Peilan couldn't help it, and the coffee rushed out of her nostrils.

"Secretary-General—" She was about to die. Regardless of the coffee still dripping from her nostrils and the coffee that had just splashed on the ground, she glared at Li Xuewu and scolded, "Can't you wait until I finish drinking before telling this kind of joke?"

"I said my life is bitter, is it a joke to you?" Li Xuewu looked at her with amusement and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing like you—"

Zhou Peilan wiped the coffee from her nostrils with a tissue, as well as the coffee that had just splashed on the ground, with dissatisfaction.

"I was just thinking about how to evaluate these two kinds of coffee, and you disrupted my train of thought."

"Heh heh, it doesn't matter, take it back and taste it slowly." Li Xuewu generously gestured to the tea cabinet and said, "Take it all away, anyway, I won't drink it. In my view, this is just eating bitterness when there is no bitterness."

"I don't dare to take it, this thing must be very expensive—" Zhou Peilan had just glanced at it. The text on the packaging box wasn't Chinese, it should be German.

Can it be a cheap product if it can be used as a foreign trade product?

Of course, this sentence is widely applicable in the Red Steel Group. Even the cheap products defined by the Red Steel Group aren't that cheap.

Cheap is relative, not absolute.

In early February, the first East Germany-Yingcheng Port trade fleet set sail, heading straight for the Strait of Malacca.

Don't misunderstand, Yingcheng Port hadn't been built yet, and this fleet didn't really set sail from Yingcheng Port, but the customs clearance documents were issued by Yingcheng Port, because the document with East Germany was signed this way, trade between socialist countries.

East Germany only recognized customs documents, and they didn't care where the goods on the ship came from.

Two gold bars are placed in front of you. You say which one is noble and which one is vulgar.

Why doesn't it lose money to transport coffee and cane sugar from Annan and Southeast Asia to East Germany?

Because coffee and cane sugar were placed on the ship as fillers in the gaps of other cargo transportation. So what were the main goods?

It was food, it was semi-finished steel.

Li Xuewu discovered when he was in East Germany that the price of local fruits and vegetables was very high, not to mention industrial raw materials. Coal and iron ore resources were quite scarce.

The Red Steel Group took out a part of semi-finished steel as export resources to maintain cooperation with East Germany.

The coffee Li Xuewu said he gave to Zhou Peilan was a sample of this batch of goods. Of course, the sample was what the sales office said. There was no need to delve into what kind of tricks were inside.

"What is this?"

When Wang Yajuan entered the room with a lunch box, she discovered the pink lunch box on his desk at a glance.

Lunch boxes were all made of aluminum. Where would there be pink ones? But there was one on his desk, and Wang Yajuan saw it.

She didn't even dare to knit a thermal cover for the lunch box with pink wool. Where did this lunch box come from? It must be a little girl's!

"Mm? Lunch box." Li Xuewu didn't notice that Zhou Peilan had left the lunch box, and didn't even notice when Zhou Peilan had left.

"Who sent it? It's quite fragrant."

Wang Yajuan put down the blue lunch box in her hand, took out the pink lunch box and smelled it, curled her lip and said, "Radish and mutton filling?"

"Why didn't you go to the police dog team to take up a post?" Li Xuewu curled his lip and said, "It was sent by little Zhou in the office."

"Then why don't you eat it?"

Wang Yajuan really wasn't polite, lifted the lunch box, took one casually, and stuffed it into her mouth.

Li Xuewu retorted irritably, "If I eat it, what will you eat?"

"Good, I'll reward you with my box."

Wang Yajuan's cheeks bulged, and she really didn't intend to leave any for Li Xuewu, intending to eat them all.

Even if she didn't like the taste of radish.

"Forget it, I ate in the cafeteria."

Li Xuewu waved his hand and said, "Eat them all."

"What's wrong? Angry?" Wang Yajuan looked at him deliberately and asked, "Blaming me for eating your pink dumplings?"

"I remember she didn't say there was vinegar in the lunch box." Li Xuewu looked up at her and asked, "Why do I smell a sour taste."

"You're the one who's sour—"

Wang Yajuan put down the dumplings in her hand irritably and hummed, "Not eating, not delicious at all."

Li Xuewu looked at the lonely dumpling left in the lunch box. Could this also be called not delicious? Then how unjust must this remaining dumpling be.

"What are you here for? Did you come specifically to send me dumplings?"

Li Xuewu continued his work, without raising his head, and said, "How sincere it would be to invite me to eat at home."

"Beautiful you—" Wang Yajuan glared at him and said, "Who wants to invite you? I just think you're pitiful."

She glanced at the remaining mutton-filled dumpling and said meaningfully, "It's just that I didn't expect someone to still pity you."

"Thanks, sorry to trouble you."

Li Xuewu kept his eyes on the document, pointed at the lunch box casually when turning the page, and said, "After eating, wash it and send it back to little Zhou, and say I thank her."

"Why don't you wash it yourself?"

Wang Yajuan was happy in her heart, but her mouth still didn't forgive, and seeing Li Xuewu look over, she pretended to be reluctant, ate the last unjust dumpling, and went to the door to wash the lunch box.

Since she could be allowed to return the lunch box, it showed that there was nothing between the two.

Li Xuewu was too lazy to explain to her. Saying little Zhou had an object seemed to really care about her suspicion.

"My sister thanks you, saying

"My sister is grateful to you and says she wants to come to Steel City to visit you," Wang Yajuan said while scrubbing her lunchbox. "She says that without you, there would be no 'now' for her, let alone her 'past Ah Hong'."

"Ask her for me, what on earth does she need to do to stop acting crazy?" Li Xuewu said irritably. "What nonsense is this? Can you stop dragging me into her happy life?"

"Also, tell her to stay put at home; she should wait until her hair is fully grown before going out."

"Isn't it a good thing that she's grateful?" Wang Yajuan looked at him with a smile and asked, "What do you think about me bringing her to Steel City to live with me for a while? You haven't seen it, but the little one has grown up so sturdy, looking so bright and lively—he's very likable."

"Are you sure?" Li Xuewu looked up at her, speechless, and said, "Do you know what it means to have a child in your life?"

"What?" Wang Yajuan seemed not to have realized the severity of the situation yet, and looking at him, she said, "I like children."

"Heh, when he smiles at you, he's an angel, right?"

Li Xuewu curled his lip and said, "But when he cries in the middle of the night, you'll wish you could jump off the building."

"Is it really that bad?" Wang Yajuan looked at him with amusement and asked, "Did Li Shu torture you like that when she was little?"

"Li Shu was raised by her great-grandmother and grandmother when she was little; I only took care of her for a few days."

Li Xuewu glanced at her and said, "She was already sensible when she came back to us; it was only later that she started being naughty."

"What about your Li Ning then?"

Wang Yajuan raised her eyebrows, as if she really wanted to know more about his family affairs.

"Li Ning?" Li Xuewu shook his head slightly and said, "When he was little, Qin Jingru looked after him; when he got a bit older, there was Er Ya and his sister."

"Er Ya mainly used coaxing, and his sister used physical intimidation as a supplement."

He tapped his fountain pen against Wang Yajuan to remind her, "I advise you to drop this idea, lest you spend your whole life looking for regret medicine."

"Think about it carefully: if Wang Yamei really treasured her son, would she send him to you to play with? By then, it will be you coaxing the child while she goes off to play."

Wang Yajuan stood there and thought about it; these words seemed to be true...

They said they wouldn't celebrate the New Year, so they really didn't; at least on the surface, everyone followed the routine—going to work and doing what they were supposed to do, except that the meal in the evening was a bit richer.

Firecrackers couldn't be set off; even if you wanted to, you had to find a big, empty field where no one was around to satisfy the craving, and that was enough.

If you really set them off in the courtyard, you'd be called into the Security Department the next day and asked if you were slacking off and still thinking about those feudal ways.

On New Year's Eve, which was February 5th, the system issued two notices uniformly: "Directive on Opposing Corruption, Theft, and Speculation" and "Notice on Opposing Extravagance and Waste."

According to the policy interpretation documents subsequently issued by the First Ministry of Machine-Building, the entire group would carry out inspection work with the main content of cracking down on criminals, opposing corruption and theft, opposing speculation, and opposing extravagance and waste.

Li Xuewu knew that what was meant to come had finally arrived; the east wind that Li Huai De had been waiting for had come.

"How is the matter being handled?" During the Spring Festival, Li Xuewu visited the various industrial plants in Liaodong, focusing on the work of restoring production at the Steel Automobile plant.

A work safety accident had occurred a few days ago, and this was the critical period for restoring morale and soothing people's hearts; he wanted to see how Lu Yuan Shen was doing it and what he had done.

It had to be said that Lu Yuan Shen was quite capable in management; in the assembly workshop, Li Xuewu could no longer see the gloom of that day, and it was as bustling as ever.

Perhaps that gloom and sorrow had not been erased, but had only been deeply branded into the hearts of the employees.

Although this was not the best result Li Xuewu had wanted, it was already commendable; even if he had come himself, it would have been no better.

"The family members are still very cooperative with the factory's work," Lu Yuan Shen looked at him and reported, "The division of responsibility is 3:3:4; from me downwards, the management level bears 4, the workshop management level bears 3, and the parties involved bear 3."

He sighed and said, "I tried my best to fight for them, but the employment quota..."

"Does she have children at the United School?"

Li Xuewu didn't look at him, but watched the situation in the workshop; the truth was only visible in the details.

Lu Yuan Shen replied, "She has two sons; the eldest is sent down to Shaanxi Province, and the second is sent down to Inner Mongolia."

"Arrange for them to go to the construction company."

Li Xuewu didn't want to open this door, but some special matters needed special handling.

A system should not be a ruler, but rather a net—a net that provides a safety net for the most basic masses.

Lu Yuan Shen was not surprised by his arrangement; this was also the best solution he could think of.

Moreover, only one of the two sons could be placed, otherwise, future work would be impossible to do.

What needed to be taken care of must be taken care of, but what needed to be complied with must still be complied with.

"Did you add a meal on New Year's Eve?"

Li Xuewu turned around and walked out; he had seen what he needed to see, and what needed to be seen had been seen—today's work was enough.

"Yes, I supervised it personally."

Lu Yuan Shen replied, "We will also arrange meat dishes at noon today, thanks to the meat products you coordinated."

"This is all the ability I have," Li Xuewu looked at him and said faintly, "This is all I can do to help you."

"Thank you—" After a silence, Lu Yuan Shen still said a word of thanks.

Since Li Xuewu said so, it meant that he would not be soft-hearted in the handling of the subsequent issues.

In fact, Lu Yuan Shen had already guessed that it wasn't that Li Xuewu wanted to make an example of him, but that his luck was bad and he hadn't caught up with a good time.

The one who really wanted to deal with him was likely Li Huai De; this move of his was truly ruthless, stimulating the old Li to the point of redness.

If he didn't kill one or two, he was really afraid he wouldn't be able to suppress the wind in the group.

"I can accept any handling result; I completely obey the organization's decision."

"Hmm, the attitude is still acceptable." Li Xuewu looked at the clean and tidy factory area, only taking him forward, and said, "Steel Automobile being able to have this year is your credit; your contribution is indispensable."

"Secretary-General—" Lu Yuan Shen looked at him and said in a low voice, "How dare a defeated general speak of courage? It was my failure to do the management work well that added trouble to you."

"Have you already lost your self-confidence?"

Li Xuewu looked at him and said, "Are you thinking about where to waste your life next?"

"No..." Lu Yuan Shen replied listlessly; it seemed he had no confidence.

Li Xuewu only glanced at him and didn't say anything more, but he patted his arm before getting into the car.

"You are good, you are good."

After saying this, he turned and got into the car; Yu Zhe started the car, leaving behind a lonely face in the rearview mirror.

Sometimes the situation is beyond one's control, and sometimes people are beyond the situation; it's hard to explain and hard to understand.

On February 7th, Li Xuewu received a call from the General Manager's office; Li Huai De was looking for him.

The two talked for a long time on the phone, and the next day, the group's General Manager's office issued an order to establish an organization management agency for the "one strike, three anti" campaign, with Li Huai De serving concurrently as the group leader.

It was very surprising that Li Xuewu, the Secretary-General, did not serve concurrently as the deputy group leader, let alone as the office director.

There was nothing—no explanation, no clarification, and not even any arrangement for Li Xuewu in the relevant work.

However, the various branch factories and subsidiaries of Liaodong Industry still actively responded to the group's call and launched actions.

The purpose was good, but it was feared that the purpose was not pure.

Li Xuewu did not want to complicate simple things, and even less did he want to make complex problems troublesome.

On the 9th, Li Xuewu took a train to Fengcheng to carry out inspection work at the Fengcheng Machinery Plant; at the same time, the group's Chief Financial Officer, Jing Yunong, arrived in Fengcheng to carry out economic research work.

PS: I went to Hebei, and I wrote this on the train back; I'm too tired, the lights are out, so I'll just write 9,000 words.