Chapter 1613: God is a Girl

"How much did that papermaking equipment bought by the First Prison Institute cost at the beginning?"

Yu Li came back late. Seeing him sitting in the living room reading the newspaper, she hurried to the kitchen, asking while walking.

Li Xuewu didn't raise his head; he had already seen her enter the courtyard from the window.

Hearing her ask about the papermaking equipment at this moment, he replied nonchalantly: "That depends on what kind of papermaking equipment and needs."

He shook the newspaper in his hand, raised his head, looked towards the kitchen, and explained: "North Korea just ordered papermaking equipment from Finland for 26 million US dollars."

"So expensive?!" This answer surprised Yu Li so much that she couldn't help but walk out of the kitchen and ask: "That must be very good equipment!"

"The quality, efficiency, types of raw materials, uses, quality, etc., of the equipment—there are too many and too complex conditions."

Li Xuewu continued to look at the newspaper in his hand and asked: "Why are you asking this? Did the paper mill contact you?"

"It's Zhao Lao Si." Yu Li digested his answer just now, walked back to the kitchen with the green onions in her hand, and explained: "He wants to set up a paper mill."

"What's he thinking?" This time it was Li Xuewu's turn to be surprised. He looked at Yu Li and asked: "Why did you suddenly think of doing papermaking?"

"Waste utilization." Yu Li explained along with the topic just now: "The processing plant has a lot of metal scrap, and there's also quite a bit of paper products."

She looked at Li Xuewu through the window and said: "Back in Beijing, didn't you also help the First Prison Institute set up a set of paper mill equipment?"

"That was equipment that had long been backward."

Li Xuewu crossed his legs and introduced: "It was just so-so for making white paper for writing; it was only okay for making some toilet paper and the like."

"Later, it was dismantled and sent to the Chadian Farm, and a few engineers were found to modify it, directly becoming equipment for producing paper packaging boxes."

He picked up the teacup from the coffee table, looked at Yu Li, and asked: "Did you go to the Industrial Zone Processing Plant today?"

"Old Si asked me to go over, just to talk about this matter." Yu Li reported: "The processing plant made a profit of 78,000 last year, and he wants to use this money to open a new processing line."

Maybe Zhao Lao Si said something, she hesitated and asked: "He asked me to ask for your opinion, can this paper mill be run?"

"It can be run, why can't it be run." Li Xuewu took a sip of hot tea, put down the teacup, and said: "A paper mill doesn't violate taboos, but a printing plant won't do."

"I was still worried." Yu Li breathed a sigh of relief and said: "When he mentioned this to me, I was thinking, would it not be allowed."

This wasn't her being like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow, but in this era, not just anyone can engage in industrial production and use a large amount of labor.

All enterprises and industries, except for handicraft industries that cannot carry out collective operations, must carry out business activities in the form of collectives.

For example, a recycling station is a small collective economy, without the existence of a legal person.

A paper mill run inside a waste processing plant, using more than 3 workers, counts as small capital, so it must be affiliated with another layer.

However, this kind of thing no longer needs Li Xuewu to worry about; the person in charge of every major business city can handle these tasks.

Why doesn't he care about Zhao Lao Si running a paper mill?

Because in this era, everything is lacking, even the paper used in daily life is lacking. Everyone knows about the lack of paper for printing exam questions when restoring the college entrance examination, right?

Regarding the current demand for paper for the common people's life and work, it's not certain that it can be satisfied even with another 20 years of development.

Can comrades with life experience recall what year they first used toilet paper?

Therefore, in producing this kind of industrial product that has no taboos and is completely for people's livelihood, it almost won't attract any interference.

Moreover, with Zhao Lao Si's cleverness and caution, he will absolutely not supply the paper mill's products directly to individuals.

It can't be said that he is timid, but after industrial production reaches a certain scale, it won't operate sales terminals independently.

Distributing paper to consignment points is such a time-consuming and laborious thing; even if you raise a hundred people, you can't finish it.

Besides, this labor cost is something the current processing plant can't afford.

Therefore, no matter what kind of paper product is produced, it will be completed by the supply chain general company through consignment or direct procurement and sales.

"Recycling waste books and newspapers, the quality of the paper produced is average, right?" Li Xuewu looked at the newspaper in his hand and asked: "Toilet paper?"

"He said he wanted to try." Yu Li introduced: "Heard that the manufacturing process of toilet paper is the simplest, and it doesn't need to be so fine, so he wants to start with toilet paper first."

"Hehehe—" Li Xuewu thought of a TV series he had seen in his previous life, Diamond Sand brand toilet paper, which made your butt hurt after using it.

In this era, don't expect the general papermaking technology to be very good. If it's really like the napkins or toilet paper used in his home, the price isn't low.

You say you don't have good equipment, so you make good paper?

Actually, it's because you don't have the status and can't afford it.

Is rice paper soft or not? Even if you write calligraphy on it, it won't leak. Wouldn't it be softer and more comfortable to wipe your butt with it?

Of course, this is a way of arguing. Truly soft and moderate toilet paper has long existed in this era, but cadres in the city don't use sticks to scrape.

Some people might not know what a stick scrape means, but until the 1990s, many rural areas didn't have real toilets.

The corn stalks harvested in autumn were bundled into bundles and tied into a square fence along the corner of the wall, and yellow sand was padded inside to be a toilet.

Whether you are doing big or small business, you are inside.

Small business doesn't need to be said; after peeing, pull up your pants and retreat. What to do if there is no toilet paper after the big business is finished?

Easy to handle. Since it's a fence made of corn stalks, just choose a piece from the bundled corn stalks that is most suitable and break it off.

Those with life experience know that corn stalks have a very hard outer skin, relatively smooth, and not cleaned very well.

Generally, when squatting, you will use your teeth to tear open the skin of that stalk, revealing the pith inside with a relatively large coefficient of friction.

After the big business is finished, use the pith as thick as a thumb to deal with the backyard.

After pulling up your pants, you can't leave immediately. You have to use the shovel in the corner of the wall to shovel up what you just produced and throw it into the pit behind the fence.

Every once in a while, you have to fill this kind of toilet with a layer of yellow sand, and it must be yellow sand, because it doesn't freeze in winter, making it convenient to shovel up.

Some people say this description is disgusting, but it's actually helplessness. If everyone could afford toilet paper, who would use stalks? If everyone could afford a toilet, who would use a dry toilet?

Even if Zhao Lao Si opens a toilet paper factory, this product won't be popularized to rural areas very quickly; it won't even be enough for related units to digest.

During dinner, seeing that he didn't talk much, Yu Li took the initiative to ask why he was concerned about North Korea buying papermaking equipment.

"Saw it in the newspaper." Li Xuewu explained nonchalantly: "To attack the Northeast Asian market, how can one not pay attention to North Korea."

Actually, he wanted to take the last opportunity to make a profit. Comrades who study modern history all know that North Korea's economy is about to collapse.

After the year, Mr. Z visited and brought a large amount of aid, and the Red Steel Group participated in the supply work of material procurement.

The Antelope Second Generation and the Sagittarius two car models were within the scope of aid.

Of course, North Korea is still rich now. How rich it is, you might not be able to imagine; it could even be on par with Japan.

Li Xuewu doesn't mind guiding the Red Steel Group to intervene at this time to speed up North Korea's economy.

As for whether it's rushing faster into the economic abyss or a one-in-ten-thousand probability of coming back to life, that has nothing to do with him.

Anyway, he knows that when South Korea gets rich, North Korea gets nervous, and friction will definitely happen. When Japan gets rich, the Northeast side gets nervous, and the economy will definitely be squeezed.

Rather than letting South Korea and the devils get rich, it's better to strike first and destroy the other party's industrial economy. He doesn't dare to say this, but delaying the other party's industrial economic development can still be achieved.

As long as the Sea Carriage Driver is capable, he can let these three neighbors enjoy the cheapest daily electrical appliances and materials produced in the Northeast within 20 years.

As long as the goods exported by the Red Steel Group are cheap enough, he doesn't believe the other party's national industry can develop.

Unless they play dirty and destroy the Sea Carriage Driver by any means.

But in Li Xuewu's view, this is impossible to achieve, because peninsula countries and island countries have no way to completely close their coastlines.

Even a place as small as Hong Kong can't stop the "Da Fei" (smuggling boats), not to mention such a complex geographical environment in Northeast Asia.

To put it more bluntly, there is no one in this area who is a good person, and there is no one who is a friend in the strict sense.

Li Xuewu's plan, Yu Li understood as soon as she heard it, because what Wen San'er is doing in Yingcheng is this.

Well, it doesn't count as complex to say, but it's very complex to do.

Neither wanting to be tainted by cause and effect, nor wanting to achieve the goal.

Anyway, those who got rich first were indeed rich. In the situation where the employment environment is not good, there are many, many people who take risks.

This era is not lacking in ruthless people; many came from the old society and were born with a bit of bandit spirit.

From land to sea, one trip is enough to earn a lifetime's expenses. How many people have red eyes.

Money can't be earned enough. Clearly once is enough, so why do they still continue to run ships? Don't they know there is danger?

Of course they know, but the temptation of money is endless, just like human desire. After earning money to build a house and marry a wife, it is basically exhausted. Where is it enough for a family to spend?

Besides, when they earn the first thousand yuan, their living standards have already matched this level. It's hard to fall back down.

So the first time they go to sea, there is a second time. The second time they are buried in the sea, their father or brother will continue to go to sea, one after another, never stopping.

One person in the village earns money, and the whole village will boil.

Therefore, in the coastal rural areas around Yingcheng, as long as they can survive in the sea, they will basically gather together to go to sea.

One ship or two ships might have an accident, but when more than ten or twenty ships act together, the risk will be greatly reduced.

The Yingcheng Port Area has long made this kind of special economic activity public. After determining the list of exported goods and imported materials, the result is that the supervision turns a blind eye.

Wen San'er is timid and cautiously adheres to the bottom line drawn by Li Xuewu: not participating, not organizing, not responsible.

He only distributes materials to these ships and purchases materials; he doesn't care about anything else, leaving enough profit for the Sea Carriage Driver.

It's only been a little over two years, and this land in the Northeast, especially the coastal areas, has created quite a few wealth myths.

Of course, many people chose to keep a low profile and wouldn't show their wealth even if they had it, but the activity of the economy has indeed been greatly improved.

Don't ask what kind of situation this is; just refer to the fortune-making history of those big shots in the South during the same period.

When the North generally had earth-brick houses in the 1990s, some villages and towns in the South already had small villas in every household and imported cars in every household.

Wealth cannot be accumulated overnight, and villas and imported cars cannot be earned in a day.

Don't say that the land in the South grows gold; people won't believe it if you say it. It's possible to say that there are wild materials on the sea.

He doesn't dare to say that every household in the Northeast can live in a small villa and drive an imported car, but it is possible to leave fire for future economic development.

Economic development cannot be separated from funds, and even more cannot be separated from people who dare to think and do.

The total economic volume of this area in Northeast Asia is not worse than Southeast Asia at all. As long as it is operated properly, it will definitely be able to get up.

Of course, he pays attention to North Korea because this "Old Six" often doesn't play cards according to common sense, and this time is the same.

The papermaking equipment that North Korea ordered from Finland for 26 million US dollars that he told Yu Li about in the evening—if Finland can collect the principal and interest, he dares to believe that God is a girl.

Don't talk about the principal; even the interest, they shouldn't think about collecting.

Others can't see through North Korea's background, but Li Xuewu can still see it clearly.

Relying on the help of the European Community system, as an industrial country that can obtain cheap oil, raw materials, and energy, its credibility at this time is off the charts, not on the same level compared to later generations.

How ruthless they are in playing rogue and overdrawing credibility, Li Xuewu understands as soon as he looks at the newspaper.

This is wool-shearing the world.

Based on the wrong judgment of North Korea's international credit at this time, Sweden's Volvo company believes that North Korea is a huge future market.

Therefore, Volvo is already negotiating to export 1,000 Volvo 144 luxury cars to North Korea.

Nordic luxury cars aren't just blowing smoke. They are called Volvo in the mainland and "Rich Man" (Fuhao) in Hong Kong. Li Xuewu knows the quotation of this car.

The price of the Volvo 144 is about 18,000 US dollars.

What concept is this?

You have to know that this is the era when the US dollar is pegged to gold!

According to the official inaccurate exchange rate, 18,000 US dollars is equivalent to 57,600 yuan in the mainland, but the actual value is definitely more.

1,000 vehicles is 18 million US dollars. Have you ever seen such wool-shearing?

What is the key? Volvo completely trusts North Korea's international credit at this time, and even promised to ship without a deposit.

If it weren't for the sake of face and the future, Li Xuewu would have wanted to greet the very sinister Ji Weidong and let him go to the international market to cheat money and sex.

Information asymmetry in this era caused scammers to run rampant. Even in the 1990s of later generations, there was a low-end scammer market.

Of course, there are scammers in every era, and scams emerge one after another.

Can this little movement in North Korea attract Li Xuewu's concern?

Of course not, because this is not the first time.

Li Xuewu learned from the international news department that some Swedish engineering companies are developing infrastructure and engineering projects for North Korea at this time.

Besides papermaking equipment, Finland has nearly 6 million other cooperation projects about to unfold.

Then there is Switzerland, this big sucker; North Korea purchased 205 million Swiss francs worth of Rolex watches, also without paying.

Do you think these Nordic enterprises are all big fools, and why let them buy things on credit without paying?

Think about it, why can you get a credit card when you just enter society?

When you swipe and swipe to buy this and that, have you ever thought that you wouldn't be able to pay it back?

Besides, the bank didn't think you really wouldn't pay back the money.

During the post-war economic recovery period, some countries had excess production capacity and were eager to occupy the market, so they would make some risky investment moves.

The result was that the shameless North Korea caught the last opportunity of the economic downturn and sheared a wave of wool.

What to do if you can't pay it back?

Just default, anyway, their economic base is in the European Community, and it's not like they are relying on those Nordic old men to live.

Then someone asked, is this money a bad debt?

Hehe—

How does that saying go?

If you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.

Sanctions against North Korea have been continuing. One day they will open up, even if the slogan of opening up started from this time.

When their economy connects to the world track, there will be countless unpaid bills slapped on their foreheads; either pay back the money or get out.

The reason lies in the fact that their per capita GDP exceeded 1,000 US dollars this year.

Damn, thinking about it makes me angry.

Eating and taking from two big brothers, without any consciousness of return, and even having a period of ambition.

So, looking at the geopolitical map of later generations, a half-dead neighbor is a good neighbor, right?

Besides stabilizing the influence within the group, Li Xuewu's next step is to truly manage this market in Northeast Asia.

"Leader, you are busy."

Zhang Jing walked in with a smile. Seeing Li Xuewu raise his head, he turned around and waved his hand. Ma Baosen and another clerk carried a large box in, looking quite heavy.

"What treasure? So careful."

Li Xuewu flipped through the file page, looked at them with a smile, and said: "It wouldn't be a shell, would it?"

"You're joking, how could a shell be sent to you here."

Ma Baosen smiled and winked: "This was arranged by Factory Director Xu of Yingcheng Shipping to be sent over, saying it's a gift for you."

"Oh? Factory Director Xu sent a gift?" Li Xuewu heard it was Xu Sian playing tricks, so he put down the pen in his hand, turned his body to examine the box on the large desk, and asked: "What is it?"

"Hehe, just open it and you'll know."

Ma Baosen sold a pass, urged to find pliers and a knife from the toolbox he brought, and was about to start dismantling.

Li Xuewu stood up and walked over to take a look. Wooden box packaging, looking quite decent.

"Heard it was sent by the Bincheng Red Flag Shipyard. Factory Director Xu didn't keep it and specially asked someone to send it to you."

Zhang Jing explained with a smile: "I tried it, it must be forty or fifty jin heavy."

"What thing?" Li Xuewu looked at it for a few times, turned his head to look at him and asked: "Oh, right, where did Deputy Director Su and the others go?"

"Visited the Metallurgical Plant this morning."

Zhang Jing changed to a serious expression and introduced softly: "Heard that they picked out quite a few faults in the workshop, and the opinions are relatively large."

"Isn't this a good thing." Li Xuewu carried his hands behind his back and examined the two people dismantling the packing box, saying in his mouth: "Usually let them self-check, one by one full of satisfaction, now finally someone can give opinions."

Zhang Jing didn't follow his words, but frowned slightly and reminded: "Heard from the office that he wants to talk to the person in charge one by one in the subsequent research work, at least needing an hour."

"Oh, okay, quite a normal thing."

Li Xuewu nodded slowly, but his brows frowned slightly, looking like he couldn't wait, his gaze always on the two people dismantling the packing box.

Zhang Jing wouldn't think so. He arranged for people to stare at Deputy Director Su closely, just to be able to convey the dynamics to the Secretary-General at the first time.

Don't look at the Secretary-General saying this, but what he should do must be done.

"Should be Steel City Electronics in the afternoon."

He hesitated and explained: "Factory Director Bi's side has already made preparations, now just waiting for the noon break to see if they have any changes."

"Hmm." Li Xuewu turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall; it was 11:30. Those who did research should be back for lunch.

"It's a ship!" Ma Baosen pried open the wooden box, dismantled the broken grass packaging inside, and what was revealed was a long, sturdy large iron ship.

Well, compared to the models produced by the Red Steel Group, this ship looked quite large, but Li Xuewu was sure it couldn't go into the water.

Large model, the details were handled very well. Ma Baosen and the two couldn't lift it, and Zhang Jing even reached out to help.

After the ship was completely placed on the accompanying pillow wood, Li Xuewu saw its full appearance.

The hull number painted in white oil paint on the ship's side was 233.

Besides the pillow wood for the display stand and the small red flag on the ship, there was also a wooden board carved with ship introduction.

Li Xuewu looked at it, and only then did he know the ship's real name: Type 051 Guided Missile Destroyer.

"Considered a thank-you letter?"

Zhang Jing finished reading the letter in the box, smiled and handed it to Li Xuewu, saying: "Red Flag Shipyard learned our sense of ritual."

"This is called learning and applying?" Li Xuewu also understood. This wasn't sending a large model, but clearly sending a brochure.

Of course, it wasn't for publicity for sales, but to publicize achievements.

Yingcheng Shipping has business cooperation with Bincheng Red Flag Shipyard. Last year, the two sides reached a project cooperation, which led to today's thank-you letter.

Li Xuewu didn't know the relevant cooperation project, just knew that Yingcheng Shipping introduced more advanced shipbuilding technology from abroad, and the two sides reached cooperation on certain projects based on this foundation.

The brief introduction of the ship type was very short, and Li Xuewu only understood a general idea. He knew nothing about maritime equipment and didn't dare to pretend to understand.

Even the definition of a guided missile destroyer, he couldn't figure out, just knew that Yingcheng Shipping made a contribution, which was gratifying.

Xu Sian is such a smart person. This gift was sent over, and he was sure Li Xuewu wouldn't keep it, but he still had to pass through his hands.

Li Xuewu certainly wouldn't keep it. This kind of iron lump had no temptation for him. He couldn't even understand it, so what was there to appreciate?

"Don't mess around, pack it up again."

He waved his hand and told Ma Baosen and the two: "After packaging, send it to the group and give it to Director Li to appreciate."

Li Xuewu really couldn't appreciate it. He didn't even know that this ship would be named the "Ji N" ship in the future, and even after retirement, this name would welcome a new life.

"Putting it here is also quite suitable."

Zhang Jing suggested with a smile: "Should I find someone to help you replicate a set?"

"Forget it, so big, my office doesn't have a place to put it." Li Xuewu reached out and touched the warship model, let out a long breath, and said: "It would be good when our Yingcheng Shipping can also produce this kind of equipment."

"You really dare to think." Zhang Jing teased him with a smile. A clerk came in to report, and he walked to the door to listen.

And Ma Baosen, under Li Xuewu's request, re-packed the model into the box, along with the few pieces of pillow wood and the introduction board.

Zhang Jing sent the clerk away, hurried to his side, leaned into his ear, and reported softly: "Deputy Director Su wants to see Yu Tiecheng's family."

He pulled away, looked at Li Xuewu's frowned brows, and reported again: "Someone saw a team leader of the technical team go to see him this morning."

"Who? Do you know who it is?" Li Xuewu lost the interest to continue looking at the model, turned around, walked behind the office desk, and sat down.

Zhang Jing followed and reported softly: "You should have seen him. He was arranged by the technical department, and his name is Zhang Mingyuan."

"It's him." Li Xuewu's brows frowned deeper. This person had nothing to do with him; he was the object of Wang Yajuan's broken engagement.

A cadre from the technical department, during the period of leading the team to manage the engineers and technical workers supported by East Germany in Steel City, what matter needed to be reported privately to Deputy Director Su, who was in charge of safety production and quality environmental protection?

"Do you want me to arrange for someone..." Zhang Jing looked at his face and asked tentatively.

Li Xuewu shook his head and said: "No rush, give him enough time and opportunity to perform."

"Then I will continue to arrange for people to stare at him."

Zhang Jing was loyal to him; it wasn't anyone who could be influenced. Li Xuewu could be considered to have the grace of knowing him.

Li Xuewu didn't commit himself, didn't pay attention to Ma Baosen's side, and continued to look at the documents in his hand.

Su Weide coming to Steel City itself carried a bit of weirdness. It looked like he was here to send cadres and announce personnel appointments, but actually?

He didn't intend to leave immediately, but wanted to take this opportunity to walk through and look at the group's factories in Steel City.

Following his rhythm of looking at two a day, I'm afraid he would have to stay in Steel City until next week.

Li Xuewu didn't intend to confront him head-on. Except for arranging a reception banquet on the first day, he didn't even meet him in the following days.

He had work to do. He couldn't stop or block whoever the other party wanted to see or talk to. Why bother to be upset and offer the other party a stinky foot?

Near the end of work in the evening, Zhang Jing walked in again, his face solemn as he reported Su Weide's movements in the afternoon.

"What do you mean the talk was very complex?" Li Xuewu looked at him and asked: "Talk is talk, how can it be described as complex?"

"Because after the talk ended, someone in the research team accompanied Yu Tiecheng's wife to leave."

Zhang Jing looked back, saw Zhou Peilan standing at the door, waved to signal her to come in, and explained to Li Xuewu at the same time: "I asked Peilan to go to Yu Tiecheng's house to see the situation."

"They are all gone." Zhou Peilan reported in a panic: "The house was packed very messily, looking like they left in a hurry."

"When I went, the door wasn't even locked, but according to the neighbors, someone escorted their family of three into a car and left."

"Heh—" Li Xuewu sneered, narrowed his eyes, and said disdainfully: "Acting so mysteriously, do they really think they are treasures?"

"I'm afraid it's not that they think they are treasures, but Deputy Director Su thinks they are treasures." Zhang Jing frowned and said: "Do you want me to arrange for someone to chase them?"

"Chase? Chase what?" Li Xuewu looked at him amusedly and asked: "Do you have a ghost in your heart? Why chase them?"

"If it's really to implement the treatment, I'm happy for them."

"Sorry, Secretary-General—" Zhou Peilan was scared, her voice hoarse: "It's my failure to do a good job in supervision, letting them..."

"It has nothing to do with you." Li Xuewu raised his chin and said: "Go do your work, don't think about this anymore."

After Zhou Peilan went out, he sighed and said lightly: "Heaven wants to rain, mother wants to marry, let them go."

"But—" Zhang Jing was still worried: "What if they go to the group and talk nonsense?"

"The mouth is on others; can you control what others say?" Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and stared at him: "You have to believe in the organization."

"Understood." Zhang Jing nodded, and seeing he had no instructions, turned and went out.

The office quieted down. The sound of Li Xuewu's pen writing was audible; there was no worry, looking like he had a plan in mind.

Just before Su Weide finished his research and set off to return to Beijing, Li Xuewu finally received news from the group.

Liu Yaqin, Yu Tiecheng's wife, took her son Yu Yang and daughter Yu Jia to the Discipline Inspection Group just established by the group to report that he interfered with the investigation progress of the No. 4 furnace, seriously affecting the work team's investigation and feedback on the facts.

For the whole afternoon, the entire organ was discussing this matter. There were all kinds of opinions, but on the surface, everyone remained quiet.

This matter not only involved Li Xuewu, but also another person in the game, that is, Deputy Director Dong, who had worked in Steel City for three years.

During these days in Steel City, Deputy Director Su not only had long talks with the person in charge of each factory, but also talked to individual deputy positions.

No one knew what they talked about. For a time, the industrial organizational ecology of the group in Liaodong was panicked, and everyone was a soldier.

However, Li Xuewu was still that calm expression, and even refused when Su Weide invited him to return to Beijing together.

Similarly, he didn't arrange a farewell banquet for the other party, because he wanted to "avoid suspicion."

Although Yu Tiecheng's wife had reported to Deputy Director Xiang, as the person in charge of work safety, quality, and environmental protection, he remained the supervising leader for the investigation of this case.

Because it was not yet certain whether any cadres were involved in this accident, the first thing to determine should be the essence of the safety production accident.

It had been almost a year, and there was no result. Liu Yaqin went to the group to report him, and he didn't want to explain a word, let alone refute.

In the eyes of some people, the Secretary-General wanted to let the bullets fly for a while?

Su Weide's invitation for him to return to Beijing together was not well-intentioned, but just wanted to watch his excitement.

Really going back with him seemed like being guilty, being escorted back to Beijing by the other party, not returning to Beijing, but accepting investigation. How would the cadres and staff of the group in Liaodong industry think?

In this era where information dissemination is relatively closed, rumors kill people. The taste changes as it spreads.

His calm stay in Steel City might make some people say he was afraid to return to Beijing, but as long as he was here, no one dared to move around.

But his act of refusing to return to Beijing basically meant giving up arguing at this critical period, and even giving up participating in the Management Committee meeting.

It looked magnanimous, but lacking his self-defense, lacking his vote, I don't know if those people in the Management Committee would initiate an investigation and review of him.

Sure enough, while Li Xuewu was actively contacting Beijing Chemical, Su Weide, who rushed back at the point, took the initiative to propose the opinion of reorganizing the investigation team for the No. 4 furnace safety production accident at the group's Management Committee work meeting.

This was almost equivalent to slapping his own face, because the investigation team working in Steel City now was organized by people he arranged.

But he didn't hesitate to slap his own face, and also wanted to reorganize the investigation team, taking the initiative to propose that he be personally responsible for supervision, and invited the newly established Discipline Inspection Group to join.

This posture of daring to take responsibility, not shielding, and not delaying really showed that he had no selfishness and was completely selfless.

The Discipline Inspection Group, which had been hung up by Li Xuewu for a period of time, finally had the opportunity to come to Steel City to carry out work by joining the investigation team.

Is this Zhou Wanquan's means?

Perhaps, seeing Su Weide so actively adding himself, it's not hard to see that the two are wearing the same pair of pants.

Of course, Su Weide had a licking dog appearance, but Zhou Wanquan was like a girl who hadn't left the cabinet, acting reserved for a while before agreeing.

What made him reserved wasn't Li Xuewu, but Li Huai De's attitude towards Li Xuewu, and the attitude of others in the Management Committee.

Different from what they thought, although Li Xuewu didn't come back to attend the meeting, there was no situation of attacking him in a group.

A while ago, because of the person in charge of Steel Auto, it seemed that everyone had opinions on Li Xuewu, but when they really arrived at the meeting, few people spoke.

Only Jing Yunong seriously criticized the several investigation teams organized before for being redundant and failing to give results for a long time.

She didn't directly criticize Li Xuewu, but anyone could see that she was dissatisfied with this matter.

No one spoke, which naturally meant they reserved their opinions.

At the meeting, it was very rare that Dong Wenxue didn't speak, because everyone knew that the background of this matter was also related to him.

Su Weide performed very actively. He stated that if he led the team this time and still couldn't find out, he would ask the Ministry and Beijing Industry to take action.

This was really forcing a knife to Li Huai De's neck, and he had to suspend Li Xuewu's work and cooperate with the investigation team's investigation.

Facing the forcing of Zhou Wanquan and Su Weide, Li Huai De had to agree to the opinions of the two, reorganizing the investigation team for the No. 4 furnace safety production accident.

But he stood firm against the two, and in the capacity of Director of the Management Committee and General Manager of the Group, rejected the opinion of suspending Li Xuewu's work.

His attitude was also very clear: without definite evidence, just relying on a report to suspend the work of a member of the Management Committee is unfair.

Especially on the premise that Li Xuewu's work in Liaodong didn't have any problems, he didn't approve of any opinions that would affect Li Xuewu's work.

The scene was deadlocked for a while, but Su Weide, who was eager for success, chose to compromise after looking at Zhou Wanquan.

In the vote on reorganizing the investigation team, everyone raised their hands in agreement, while the proposal to suspend Li Xuewu's work was not voted on.

Su Weide firmly believed that this time he would definitely be able to catch Li Xuewu's tail. He didn't believe that the master and apprentice had operated in Steel City for more than four years without leaving any flaws.

Especially Dong Wenxue, this typical representative of having talent but no ambition. He wouldn't take out the little things in his pants to talk about first. When he really found the actual situation, adding fuel to the fire would be exciting enough.

In early August, the Red Steel Group Management Committee officially made the decision to reorganize the investigation team for the No. 4 furnace safety production accident, led by Su Weide, who was in charge of quality, safety, and environmental protection.

The impact of this matter was still very large, especially for Dong Wenxue and Li Xuewu, it was a not-so-small blow.

Most directly, Li Xuewu, who should have successfully completed his rank promotion in the second half of this year, basically wouldn't appear on the group's recommendation list.

Before the accident gave a clear investigation result, he would continue to maintain the position of Secretary-General of the Group Management Committee at his current rank.

Indirectly, Dong Wenxue, who had handed over the management authority of the Liangmahe Industrial Zone at the beginning of the investigation, also completely lost the opportunity to regain control of the industrial zone.

While the group was drawing people to organize the investigation team to rush to Steel City to carry out investigation work, the group issued a personnel appointment.

Dong Wenxue no longer concurrently served as Director of the Liangmahe Industrial Zone Management Committee. The position was officially concurrently held by Zhang Jinsong, Deputy Director of the Management Committee and Deputy General Manager of the Group.

Actually, Zhang Jinsong had long been acting as the Liangmahe Industrial Zone, but the name wasn't right and the words weren't smooth. Who could have thought that Dong Wenxue really wouldn't be able to come back?

Who could have thought that an accident investigation of the No. 4 furnace could be dragged for so long, even on the premise that two deputy factory directors of the Metallurgical Plant had already been dealt with?

Once the situation is implemented, Li Xuewu cannot escape supervisory responsibility, and Dong Wenxue will also be held accountable. At that time, it will be lively enough.

"Do you still have the heart to do work for us now?"

Bai Changmin joked with a smile: "Don't do the work halfway, and you, the middleman, are gone. We will be in trouble."

"Then what to do?" Li Xuewu asked with a smile: "Should this matter be slowed down? Wait until our group's investigation team gives a result before talking?"

"Hehe—" Bai Changmin laughed: "Wait for them? The day lily would be cold. Really don't know what your group leaders are thinking."

He complained on the phone: "Even cadres like you aren't trusted; who else can they use."

He said a lot of such words, and finally asked inadvertently: "You say a word, come to our Beijing Chemical or not? I don't dare to say anything else, but a deputy general manager is definitely a certainty. Our Director Zhang has already agreed."

"Hehe—" Li Xuewu heard him reveal his true colors, smiled and said: "No problem, but even if I leave, I have to leave cleanly."

"How about this, you guys discuss how to handle the matter again. As soon as I have a result here, I will defect to you, brother."

He also specially reminded: "That deputy general manager position must be reserved for me." ===== CHAPTER 1614 =====