Chapter 1651: What harm is there in yielding three feet?

Is it better to do a project for complete vehicles or a project for the parts supply chain?

If we are talking about profit margins and management difficulty, the complete vehicle project is naturally the first choice.

But considering industry leadership and competitive risks, combined with the inherent advantages of the Red Steel Group, Li Xuewu naturally chooses to continue with the parts supply chain.

With the current scale and capital of the Red Steel Group, launching a truck project is easy; making it big and strong is not.

Although Steel Auto already has mature production capabilities and has also established its own distribution and service system nationwide.

However, considering time, operations, and management costs comprehensively, it is still not worth it.

With this time and capital, what project could one not do through the United Savings Bank?

Back then, everyone knew Xu Pida was rich, and everyone knew his enterprise was strong, yet the real estate enterprise actually started making mineral water—impressive.

And the result?

Blind capital expansion only brings about a decline in management and investment quality; once the fist is extended, it cannot be pulled back, leading to self-destruction.

Can his failure be simply explained by real estate policy changes and macro-control? Policies weren't aimed at him alone, nor were they issued suddenly.

To put it bluntly, the Red Steel Group is benefiting from the convenience of information asymmetry in this era.

Li Xuewu originally had the intention to develop the automotive industry; otherwise, he wouldn't have placed the machining industry in Steel City to develop.

The idea was good, but in reality, it wasn't just a matter of capital.

Among the four major domestic automobile manufacturers, counting Steel Auto as the fifth, which enterprise has developed into a comprehensive automobile city?

The Red Steel Group engaging in passenger vehicles and special vehicles was also taking advantage of the loophole where there was no industrial monopoly domestically.

Once a parts supply chain monopoly is truly formed, wanting to build cars again won't be so convenient.

You listen to Lei Bus bragging that the Mi-Porsche only took 27 months to roll off the line, but that wasn't his merit; it was the result of the industrial manufacturing capabilities that exploded in later generations and long-accumulated technical integration.

Of course, you have to admire his ability to do big things with small money.

Li Xuewu accepted today's dinner invitation thinking about doing big things with small money.

It's not the first time he's done this "borrowing a chicken to lay eggs" business; practice makes perfect.

Wang Mr. and Yang Aidong had only worked with him once and didn't have a very deep impression, but Gu Litong was an old victim.

So when Li Xuewu mentioned further forming branch factories around the parts industry, he knew exactly what Li Xuewu was up to.

The industrial influence of the Red Steel Group in Steel City goes without saying; if the truck parts industry is truly placed in Steel City, the influence of the Red Steel Group will be further enhanced.

This is naturally just on the surface; the deeper benefit is the momentum after industrial chain integration, as well as the influence of the Red Steel Group in the field of automobile manufacturing.

Why did the 107th Factory choose to cooperate with Beijing Auto instead of choosing to cooperate with the Red Steel Group nearby?

This is the third reason: the offensive power displayed by the Red Steel Group.

Knowing that the current industrial capability and development model of the Red Steel Group represent modernization and the future, when they are not ready, or rather, when they realize their own backwardness but are temporarily unable to adjust, will they choose to cooperate with a robber and negotiate with a tiger for its skin?

Only enterprises like Ji Auto and Long March, which are not large in scale and can still make up their minds to face challenges and have the opportunity to transform, dare to seek cost control and production transfer.

The 107th Factory and Beijing Auto can only passively combine and link, slowly transforming in a relatively narrow space, not daring to pursue speed.

Given the scale of the two, the result of turning too fast can only be a rollover.

In fact, starting from the year before last, Beijing Auto has been doing resource integration and capacity transformation.

Gu Litong of Beijing Second Auto seized the opportunity and took quite a bit of advantage.

The parts of the processing plants that Beijing Auto shed still had a certain competitive advantage in this era, at least domestically.

Li Xuewu was never "crossing the river by feeling the stones"; if he crosses the river by feeling Li Xuewu, there's naturally no talk of stumbling.

Although there was no formal apprenticeship and Li Xuewu doesn't acknowledge these disciples, there are quite a few "resource integration" masters active within the unit who have had a lot of contact with him.

For example, Gu Litong, who is in charge of Second Auto; for example, Bai Zhangmin of Beijing Chemical; and even Hu Ke of Liaodong Industry. These few might not have said it, but what they are actually doing is Li Xuewu's set of methods.

Why not say it?

In fact, Li Xuewu rarely says it, and even doesn't say it in public.

The reason is simple: because according to the policies and requirements of this era, his thinking of combining theory with practice is wrong. Even if it has been verified by later generations, it is not applicable now.

They can only do it experimentally, but they cannot go around showing off to the whole world.

At the dinner table, Li Xuewu once again displayed his "big bluffer" nature and began to give the three of them a crisis education lesson.

From the history of the development of the automobile industry to an overall prediction of the future automobile industry, he combined the development of the foreign automobile industry market with the development situation of the domestic economy to make predictions, truly leaving the three of them stunned.

Even though Gu Litong kept chanting in his heart that this kid was talking nonsense and not to listen to him, these strange temptations kept drilling into his brain and constantly eroding his resistance.

Li Xuewu is a devil. His goal is to persuade these people to invest in the parts industry and invest in complete vehicle assembly projects in Steel City, but he doesn't say it directly; instead, he talks at length about future competition models.

There is only one core in his words: the domestic automobile market cannot always be in a state of supply exceeding demand, the citizens cannot always be unable to afford cars like they are now, the highway network cannot always be so backward, and the transportation industry cannot always rely on railways.

Li Xuewu predicted at the dinner table that in ten years at most, the domestic transportation industry will definitely usher in changes. By that time, whoever masters the means of transportation will master wealth.

It is worth mentioning, what year was it when the first batch of domestic large vehicles were bought for transportation?

"Do you believe what he said?"

After eating and drinking their fill, watching Li Xuewu's car leave, Yang Aidong was silent for a moment and looked at Wang Mr., who was standing to the side.

Wang Mr. frowned, sighed, and said, "I have to believe it."

He put his hands in his pockets, turned back to look at Yang Aidong, and asked, "Three years ago, would you have dared to believe that the Red Steel Group could produce the kind of car he drove?"

"It's not much worse than imported ones now; they are developing too fast."

"If we follow his statement, the development speed of the foreign automobile industry is also like this—"

He hesitated for a moment and sighed again, "Just thinking about it makes me feel terrified."

Gu Litong was going to send them to the car; staying behind to leave late was just to talk.

After listening to the two of them finish speaking, he cautiously opened his mouth and said, "His words cannot be fully believed, but they cannot be completely ignored."

Seeing the two of them looking at him, Gu Litong smiled bitterly and explained, "He is a famous big bluffer in the Beijing industrial circle."

"Did you drink tonight?"

Hearing the knock on the door, Ran Qiuye knew it was him; she opened the door and smelled the alcohol.

"Didn't drink much, just talking nonsense."

Li Xuewu handed the bag in his hand to her, entered the room, changed into slippers, and asked, "Have you eaten tonight? I brought you a duck."

"Where did the duck come from?" Ran Qiuye asked with some surprise, "From a restaurant?"

"No, from the small cafeteria of Second Auto."

Li Xuewu raised his hand to unbutton his overcoat, threw it on the sofa, rubbed his face, and said, "Gu Litong treated me; I took advantage of him. Anyway, I couldn't go for nothing."

"What time is it now? I ate long ago." Ran Qiuye took the roast duck out of the bag, walked into the kitchen, and said, "Are you full?"

She stood at the doorway and asked, "Shall I heat it up and cut it for you?"

Li Xuewu waved his hand, sat down on the sofa, and said, "It's for you."

"How much can I eat by myself."

Ran Qiuye only said this one sentence and went to the kitchen.

This room was bought for her by Li Xuewu; he didn't care about the money at the time, and the area was the largest.

Even the renovation was arranged by Shen Guodong, who contacted people from Dongfeng Construction; he only asked for her opinion when configuring the furniture.

So much money flowed out like water; even if she didn't handle it, hearing colleagues' complaints made her feel heartache, and she didn't even dare to ask Li Xuewu how much he spent.

It's not like she hadn't been to other people's houses; the quality of the renovation couldn't be compared to her own home at all.

Just looking at the furniture in her house, even the styles were newer and more fashionable than others.

It was precisely because she was very satisfied with this house that she couldn't bear to refuse his kindness.

At first, she didn't know who the person who renovated the house and prepared the furniture for her was; later, after contact, she found out it was Li Xuewu's friend.

Li Xuewu also told her that if he wasn't in Beijing and she couldn't find him when she had something to do, she could contact this person named Shen Guodong.

However, except for contacting him a few times when getting the house, she didn't bother him again later.

She didn't understand what the specific relationship between Li Xuewu and that person was, or if there were any conflicts of interest, and she didn't ask, fearing to add trouble to Li Xuewu.

She was a quiet and easygoing person by nature, and she was already very satisfied with having such a place to live.

And Li Xuewu choosing the unit with the largest area was also considering that she would need to support her parents in the future.

"Are the old man and the old lady still unwilling to come back?" Li Xuewu saw her bringing tea over and asked amusedly, "Are they really addicted to staying on the mountain?"

"I've said it twice, later I didn't want to say it anymore; they don't listen."

Ran Qiuye sat to the side, looked at him, and asked, "Why have you lost weight?"

"Have I lost weight?" Li Xuewu was holding a teacup and drinking tea; he looked at her and said, "I don't feel it."

"It looks like you've lost weight." Ran Qiuye pursed her lips and said, "Are there many things to do recently?"

"Hmm, that's true." Li Xuewu took a sip of hot tea and said, "It's the end of the year, after all."

He put the teacup down, leaned on the sofa, looked at her, and asked, "When did you go to the mountain? Or did the old man and the old lady come back?"

"I went, at the end of last month."

Ran Qiuye sighed and said helplessly, "I said the wind on the mountain is strong, let them come back to live; they insisted it wasn't cold and didn't want to come back."

She lowered her head, rubbed the fluff on her pants with her fingers, and said, "Forget it, let them be; I won't persuade them anymore in the future."

"Hmm, wherever they are comfortable, that's fine." Li Xuewu said lazily, "It's better than being restrained in the city."

"They can't bear to part with those children."

Ran Qiuye looked at him and explained, "As soon as I went, they kept nagging at me, and even asked me to send some teaching aids over, saying they were useful."

She also complained with a smile, "They really think the school is run by me, wanting everything."

"Hehehe—" Li Xuewu chuckled and said, "Old children, after all—"

He raised his chin and said, "Think about what they are missing and tell me; I'll buy it."

"I was just saying it; you took it seriously." Ran Qiuye glanced at him and said, "You promised this time; what if they ask me for more next time? Can I always bother you?"

"Promise, give; if you promise, I'll give."

Li Xuewu said with a smile, "However much you promise, I'll give that much; just say a number."

He lay down along the sofa, pillowing his head with his arms, and said, "I donated my manuscript fees twice before; later I was afraid of being too prominent."

"If your old man and old lady don't mind the trouble, I'm willing to do good deeds anonymously."

"Are you sick?" Ran Qiuye looked at him amusedly and asked, "Why do you do it without seeking fame or profit? Is it that you have too much money to spend?"

"Heh—" Li Xuewu pushed away the hand she placed on his forehead and said, "I haven't reached the point of counting money until my hands cramp."

He looked at Ran Qiuye and asked, "You must have some pursuit in this life, right?"

These words were not asking her, but asking and answering himself, "I just want a clear state of mind."

"It's getting more and more mysterious," Ran Qiuye pursed her lips and said, "Are you practicing Dao?"

"I call this cultivating the heart without leaving traces." Li Xuewu smiled, "What about you? What is your current pursuit? To be a good teacher, a good principal?"

"I'm not as immortal as you—"

Ran Qiuye smiled, glanced at him, and said, "I just know how to do the things in front of me well; I can't rise to your height."

"How can that be!" Li Xuewu pretended to be dissatisfied and glared at her, saying, "Comrade, your awareness should be improved."

He turned over, lay flat on the sofa, and said with a smile, "If a person has no ideals and pursuits, what is the difference between them and a salted fish."

"What do ideals and pursuits have to do with salted fish—" Ran Qiuye stood up, went to the bathroom to test the water temperature, came out, and reminded, "Do you want to take a bath? Or wait a while."

"If the water is hot enough, can we wash together?" Li Xuewu propped himself up, scratched his hair, and said, "I haven't had my back scrubbed for a long time; it's a bit itchy."

"Is it dry in winter?" Ran Qiuye really believed him, frowned slightly, walked over, and said with concern, "Did you go to the hospital to check? Did you get bumps—"

She had just walked over to lift Li Xuewu's clothes when she was suddenly hugged by him and carried on his shoulder.

"Put me down! You're so bad!"

She had said this more than once tonight, over and over again, until Li Xuewu was willing to stop.

She still remembered the bed they collapsed when they were fooling around; this time she didn't dare to let him improvise freely. She didn't know how she blushed when changing to a wooden bed last time; she couldn't stand it if it happened again.

"Is the Beijing Chemical project to be reported by you, or handed over to the United Savings Bank?"

The next day at work, Li Huai De called him for a private talk, flipping through the documents in his hand while checking the meeting agenda with him.

Executive Deputy Secretary-General Chen Shouzhi was presiding over economic and technical cooperation business in Hong Kong and could not return to Beijing to be responsible for meeting affairs, so it could only be handed over to Deputy Secretary-General Ji Jiuzheng.

Ji Jiuzheng had long been tamed by Li Xuewu's methods; how could he dare to have any overstepping? He reported everything, big or small, to Secretary-General Li Xuewu, regardless of whether he could get a clear response.

This meeting was even more special and important, and Li Xuewu was in the group office, so he requested the office to follow the process for signing procedures.

Li Huai De was dissatisfied with his timid style of work; several face-to-face criticisms didn't work, so he could only call Li Xuewu over for a talk.

Ostensibly it was about docking work, but in reality, it was to remind Li Xuewu to organize the work order.

Back then, he shed tears to cut Ma Su and banished Chen Shouzhi, who didn't listen to Li Xuewu; that was respect for Li Xuewu, but the premise was that it couldn't affect the normal work order of the office.

If all work required Li Xuewu's signature and consent, then what was the use of having a deputy secretary-general like Ji Jiuzheng.

Furthermore, Li Xuewu was currently concurrently serving as the office of the Liaodong Industrial Leading Group; in reality, the position of secretary-general was just a symbol of status.

During the vacancy of the position, wasn't it a good opportunity to work hard and show oneself? This donkey Ji Jiuzheng was the opposite: pull him and he won't go, hit him and he retreats.

Li Xuewu had already understood Old Li's meaning, but still didn't point it out.

"Hand it over to the United Savings Bank," he sat opposite Old Li's desk, put down the teacup in his hand, and said, "After all, the work was done hard by the comrades of the bank, so I won't lecture."

"Hmm, that's fine, you discuss it."

Li Huai De put down the materials in his hand, looked at him, and asked, "How do you plan to handle the Beijing Chemical project? Are we really not going to intervene?"

"Of course," Li Xuewu looked at him and explained seriously, "It's not a feast that cannot be missed; it's just an appetizer."

He closed the notebook on his lap, placed it on the desk, crossed his hands in front of his lower abdomen, and emphasized, "The good dishes are behind."

"I read the budget report given by the United Savings Bank; it's 17 million."

Li Huai De picked up the pencil on the side and tapped the materials, saying with some heartache, "Even if you peel off a layer of skin, there's still a million or so."

"Hehehe—" Li Xuewu found it funny, covered his face, and asked back, "Is it necessary, us?"

"How is it not necessary—" Old Li seemed to have his bitterness broken, sighed, and complained, "One doesn't know the cost of firewood and rice without being the head of the house."

He casually took a document from a pile of documents on the right side of the desk and threw it in front of Li Xuewu, saying, "The budget proposal for next year."

Seeing Li Xuewu pick it up and open it, he didn't have the patience to wait for Li Xuewu to finish reading, so he sighed and said, "The annual budget increased by 27%!"

"I don't even know what this money is for; Comrade Yunong is about to lose his temper."

"What's the use of losing temper?" Li Xuewu flipped through the budget in his hand and said, "We still have to set about solving practical problems."

"Money, the problem now is that we need money." Li Huai De tapped the table and said, "The scale of tertiary industry is shrinking, the source of funds is decreasing, and other projects are gradually entering a bottleneck period, unable to support the group's high-speed development next year."

He spread his hands and said helplessly, "This is Comrade Yunong's original words; what do you want me to do, what do you want me to say."

"That doesn't mean we can dig from the project."

Li Xuewu looked at it roughly, closed the proposal, looked at him, and explained, "The investment of the United Savings Bank project cannot be regarded as a way for the group to obtain development funds."

He frowned and emphasized, "Once this opening is made, it will be difficult to brake in the future."

Li Huai De's meaning was not to take money directly from the United Savings Bank, but to use the United Savings Bank to get a share of the Beijing Chemical project.

Just like when the International Hotel project was formed, a Tuanjie Hotel and a Riverside Garden residential area were stuffed into the general contracting project.

That project saved the group at least 3 million in funds, which can be considered as Old Li remembering this cheap deal.

Opening a new project, he always thinks about peeling off a layer of skin; his nickname could be Li Peeler.

However, capital operation is not played like this; Li Xuewu was afraid that he would get addicted to it, and even directly use the funds of the United Savings Bank for group management or expenditure, which is absolutely not allowed.

The United Savings Bank should operate as an independent unit, and funds can only be used for commercial investment.

This is also the basis of trust from depositors and other cooperative units; if the Red Steel Group dares to misappropriate funds, it belongs to destroying its own Great Wall.

What if the group needs funds?

Borrowing, borrowing money from the bank for management and other expenditures, and paying it back when there is money.

And it cannot borrow money endlessly.

"The purpose of the chemical industrial park built by Beijing Chemical in Yingcheng and Steel City is for production transfer and technical updating."

Li Xuewu explained seriously, "Its fundamental purpose is to achieve groupization."

"This time, I don't know how many units and leaders are watching the project led by the United Savings Bank; once this kind of capital problem appears—"

He left half a sentence unsaid, believing that Old Li must understand.

Li Huai De certainly understood, but still sighed with heartache.

In the past few years, in order to achieve groupization, they made money with big moves and spent money with big moves, long ago forming the habit of being extravagant.

But that period was to complete the adjustment of the group's organizational structure and production mode.

With the advancement of groupization, the adjustment of the organizational structure and production mode was completed; next, capital and industrial adjustments should be carried out.

Cutting off the tertiary industry and transferring the pressure of employee management to fundamentally reduce corporate management risks and expenditures is a kind of industrial optimization.

Of course, the benefits of doing this cannot be seen now, but ten years later, when this batch of employees retires and starts applying for pensions, they will be stunned.

On one hand, they have to deal with international competition from market opening; on the other hand, they have to face tens of thousands of retired employees waiting to be supported. Even if the God of Wealth comes, it won't work.

"Do a good job in this Beijing Chemical project; next year the United Savings Bank can at least get two or three groupization projects."

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said, "You can think about it; in this process, the group constantly optimizes its industrial structure with the help of these external forces, and at the same time uses capital management and operation to get profit points. Isn't this better than participating directly?"

"Furthermore, we must attach importance to the cooperative relationship with the locality; this is crucial to the future development of the enterprise."

He pointed at his notebook and emphasized, "We are making a living on other people's territory; why should they not take care of their own business and come to take care of ours?"

"Only when our influence constantly attracts enterprises to Liaodong to start businesses and factories, and makes contributions to Liaodong's economic revitalization that exceed taxes, will it be enough to make them look at us with new eyes."

"Liaodong Industry..." Li Huai De seemed to have figured out a little meaning, frowned slightly, and asked, "The industrial loss in Liaodong in the past two years..."

"Very serious." Li Xuewu nodded and introduced, "The third-line construction relocated hundreds of factories, and there are countless counterpart aid projects."

"Just industrial raw materials and resources alone, I don't know how many trains are transported into the pass every year."

He let out a long breath and said, "At this time, they also need industrial structure adjustment, integrating resources in the process of enterprise relocation, and building an integrated industry with regional characteristics."

"You are so optimistic about your neighbor next door?" Li Huai De picked up the teacup and asked, "The hundreds of millions in aid are about to be spent; can they still use their own money to continue buying our things?"

"They have to come." Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said confidently, "If they don't buy from us, where else can they buy?"

"From the north." Old Li put down the teacup in his hand and said as a matter of course, "Isn't the industrial strength of the north stronger than ours."

"No matter how strong it is, it's just a single flower blooming alone."

Li Xuewu shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile, "It's not as good as our hundred flowers blooming together."

In fact, Li Huai De didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, but he didn't want to be looked down upon by Li Xuewu.

Only after looking at Li Xuewu deeply, he nodded and said, "As long as you have confidence, anyway, you want to make a career in Liaodong."

"This year is like this, next year..."

"Next year's key work is on industrial optimization and adjustment." Li Xuewu didn't wait for him to finish and said directly, "All industrial enterprises have completed relevant adjustment work."

"Economic construction relies on integrated industry to form scale with complementary advantages;"

"The organizational structure further completes institutional adjustments, corresponding to personnel work adjustments."

Li Xuewu paused here, sat up straight, and then said, "Communicate with the excellent industrial culture of the Liaodong region, form a characteristic industrial enterprise culture, and further strengthen the group's industrial influence in the Liaodong region."

Hearing his work plan in four aspects: industry, economy, organization, and culture, Li Huai De didn't make an evaluation; he was already very satisfied, nodded, and said, "I'll wait for your good news."

But he used an unquestionable tone to point at Li Xuewu and emphasized, "I can only give you one last year; if it succeeds, it succeeds; if it doesn't, it's just like this."

This sentence is actually very straightforward; next year is Li Xuewu's critical period. No matter how Su Wide and Zhou Wanquan investigate, Li Huai De will definitely help where he can, but it still depends on Li Xuewu's results.

If the results are enough, then naturally it is returning home in glory and rising rapidly; if the results are not enough, then he has to come back to continue as secretary-general until the time comes and the opportunity arises to be promoted again.

In fact, Li Xuewu is unlucky enough; if Su Wide hadn't intervened this year, no matter what Li Huai De did, he would have had to ensure Li Xuewu's promotion.

It's just that with Su Wide's tossing, even if he submitted an application for Li Xuewu, the higher-ups wouldn't approve it according to principle.

Once this village is passed, there is no such shop.

This year he can help Li Xuewu get promoted with the reason of formal groupization, but what about next year?

Li Xuewu also felt quite a pity and helpless at the time, and even hated Su Wide.

But he thought about it later: a blessing in disguise.

Advancing that step too early, besides the adjustment in rank and ten yuan more in salary, couldn't change anything else.

If he were allowed to return to Beijing this year, would he be willing?

Handing over the giant ship that he had worked so hard to build and was about to set sail to someone else.

Since he couldn't return to the group and couldn't let go of the position of secretary-general, what is the difference between advancing early and advancing late?

Of course, thinking about it now, there is still a difference, but it is a good thing for Li Xuewu.

According to the deduction of the timeline, with the changes in the situation next year, it's not certain that the higher-ups will investigate the problems of the Red Steel Group in it.

If Li Xuewu's progress cannot withstand investigation, it won't be as simple as retreating.

Rather than being unworthy of the name and causing criticism, it is better to slow down and wait.

Now he is standing below; if Su Wide and Zhou Wanquan want to take action, they have to bend over, and in fact, they cannot use their full strength.

If he suddenly grew taller, not to mention osteoporosis, he would also let these two take advantage.

So, what harm is there in yielding three feet?

At least no one says he is afraid now; even if someone says it, he doesn't care.

Whether he is really afraid, he knows it himself, and those who should know also know.

Giving him another year is Li Huai De's limit in dealing with the current situation of the group.

In fact, Li Huai De himself also knows that with his ability, wanting to advance further is not enough given the current situation and results.

Without Li Xuewu protecting him in Beijing, he always feels that his decisions are constrained by them.

Lacking Li Xuewu's real-time advice, every decision lacks timely adjustment.

But he must take care of Li Xuewu's needs and cannot sacrifice Li Xuewu's development simply for his own progress, so he endured it.

This year should have been the year he was in high spirits, killing all directions with the power of formal groupization.

But he didn't expect to encounter a disaster from Su Wide in April and a disaster from Zhou Wanquan in October.

Dong Wenxue is still too soft; he cannot make up his mind or be ruthless in frontal fighting, and he has lost absolute trust here.

And this is also Li Xuewu's premeditation; he certainly knows Old Li is bitter, but he cannot say it.

A year is a year; in another year, he can also sweep across the army along that wave of general trend and stabilize the entire situation of the group in Liaodong in one fell swoop.

By then, when he returns to Beijing, he won't lose control of the group's industry in Liaodong.

At the current stage, Li Huai De basically acquiesced to his ambition and plan, no longer caring about his peeking and calculating of Liaodong industry.

Old Li has had enough of being the group general manager, feeling the fatigue and condition of his body; he wants to rush in the last time and go to a higher level.

However, will Li Xuewu promise him?

Banishing Chen Shouzhi and flattening Ji Jiuzheng, Li Xuewu has to give Old Li an explanation on the issue of deputy secretary-general.

Let him go talk to Ji Jiuzheng?

This is impossible; he will never encourage Ji Jiuzheng to exert subjective initiative; this is a situation that absolutely cannot appear in management.

Now there is still time; he has to choose a capable person, which can be considered Old Li's compensation to him.

This matter is not urgent; put it down first; he has an urgent matter to handle.

Returning to the office, he picked up the phone and asked for the Red Star Literature and Art Publishing House.

"I am Li Xuewu of the group; find your general manager."

He didn't even say Ding Zigui's name, speaking somewhat impolitely.

How could the switchboard not know who he was? Just from the source of the call, they could judge whether this was the secretary-general himself.

After all, it was an internal phone, and soon he heard Ding Zigui's voice.

"Secretary-General, are you looking for me?"

"Hmm, ask you something."

Li Xuewu said indifferently, "Do you ride a bicycle to work, or use a car?"

"This—" Ding Zigui hadn't figured out the situation yet, hesitated, and asked, "Leader, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, just asking."

Li Xuewu changed the direction of holding the phone and said, "I was thinking that if you ride a bicycle to work every day, I have to allocate another car to you, so as to save you from borrowing cars from units below for the management office to use."

"Leader, what are you saying."

Ding Zigui was a little panicked; Li Xuewu's phone call was definitely not to care about him, but clearly to find fault.

"Oh, so I said it wrong?"

Li Xuewu flipped through the investigation report prepared by Zhang Enyuan in his hand, and while looking, said, "Your publishing house has one general manager, one editor-in-chief, two deputy general managers, two deputy editors-in-chief, and one secretary, which is 7 people."

He paused and then asked, "But I see that the official vehicles equipped for your management office are 7; are you riding a bicycle to work every day to show the leaders, or are you mocking me for not doing my job well?"

"Secretary-General, let me explain—"

"No need to explain, I understand you." Li Xuewu snorted coldly and said, "Promoting style, right? Like to show off, right? Fine, since you don't need that car, I'll allocate it to someone else."

He didn't need to give Ding Zigui face; after finishing, he hung up the phone and casually threw the report in his hand to the side.

Zhang Enyuan investigated very clearly; the car that should have been allocated to Han Yating was borrowed by the radio station and used as a reception car for experts and interviews.

Li Xuewu didn't say that Han Yating's car was misappropriated; he just pointed at Ding Zigui.

And he didn't say anything about allocating that car; he just insisted that Ding Zigui was making trouble.

He didn't need Ding Zigui's explanation, and didn't want to hear the tricks here.

Li Xuewu acquiesced that it was Ding Zigui's territory; his own people were bullied there, and if you, Ding Zigui, didn't give him an explanation, then your management team could all ride bicycles to work.

All are comrades, no distinction between high and low; if you want to ride, all ride; share blessings and share difficulties.

If Ding Zigui still had a brain, he would know who this phone call was made for.

If the problem couldn't be solved within half an hour, then the one who should be solved was him, Ding Zigui.

So twenty minutes later, the phone on Li Xuewu's desk rang again.

It's just that Li Xuewu was sitting there and didn't intend to answer; Zhang Enyuan waited for three rings before walking over and picking up the phone.

"Hmm, hello General Manager Ding, the leader is out." His ability to make up lies was superb; it was as fake as could be, but the person who heard this sentence had to believe it was as true as could be.

Li Xuewu went out, and his secretary could stay in the office to answer the phone?

This was Li Xuewu not wanting to answer this call; could Ding Zigui not know?

But he had to pretend not to know, even though he was very anxious to talk to Li Xuewu now.

"Hmm, I know." Zhang Enyuan heard his explanation and responded, "I will report as soon as the leader returns; please rest assured."

"Hmm, good, good, goodbye."

He hung up the phone steadily, then looked at Li Xuewu and reported softly, "Deputy General Manager Han's car usage problem has been solved; General Manager Ding said it was a misunderstanding and guaranteed that such a problem would not appear again in the future."

"What does he use to guarantee?" Li Xuewu snorted coldly, pointed at the budget he brought back, and said, "Tell General Manager Jing, cut the management budget of the publishing house in half, and no car changes are allowed within five years."

Unlike factories and sales departments, even if the group opens a gap in financial management, units like publishing houses rely on budgets to live.

Li Huai De had long required them to achieve a balance of payments as soon as possible and operate financially independently.

However, everyone knows the taste of spending money is good, and the taste of saving money is uncomfortable.

Open source has been opened, but the problem of throttling has always existed and has not been solved.

Li Xuewu's opinion directly cut half of their management budget; then next year, the bonuses of the publishing house don't need to be thought about, almost equal to zero.

He didn't believe Ding Zigui didn't know Han Yating's resume, and he didn't believe this was a misunderstanding.

Even if Ding Zigui was busy with ten thousand things and neglected this problem, did Li Xuewu have a reason to forgive his negligence?

If he doesn't learn a lesson this time, they will dare to commit it again next time.

Li Xuewu never built a small circle within the group, but he never avoided taking care of his subordinates.

As a leader, if one can't even do this bit of human sophistication, who would be willing to support him.

The matter here was just finished when the room door was knocked; Li Xuewu looked up and saw Zhang Minghua, the person in charge of the technical department who had just been publicized for his appointment.

"Secretary-General."

"Come." Li Xuewu didn't get up, and his attitude couldn't be considered close, but at least he didn't hide the surprise, nodding to signal him to come in.

Zhang Enyuan nodded in greeting and turned to walk to the doorway; the time of a few steps was just enough to judge whether he needed to make tea for the other party.

This was entirely determined by the leader's attitude.

Zhang Minghua stood in front of Li Xuewu's desk and said with a smile, "I wanted to see you after Deputy Director Gu talked to me, but I was worried there would be changes, so I waited until now."

"Hmm, sit, sit down and talk."

Li Xuewu pointed to the opposite side, nodded with a smile, and asked, "Have you started the handover?"

Hearing only two sentences of their conversation, Zhang Enyuan, who had already walked to the doorway, turned around and started making tea; the leader meant to have a talk.

Zhang Minghua had a very upright attitude, sat in the chair, and reported, "Comrade Zhao Zhigang from the production management department will take over my work; we are handling the handover procedures and expect to complete all procedures in about three days."

"Very good," Li Xuewu smiled and said, "Comrade Yang Zongfang is probably waiting for you anxiously in Steel City."

"I will rush over as soon as possible." Although Zhang Minghua knew the leader was joking, he still answered very seriously, "I won't let President Yang wait long."

"Hmm, be mentally prepared."

Li Xuewu nodded and said, "The metallurgical plant has encountered many changes in the past two years; I believe your arrival will definitely improve the organizational ecology."

"Thank you for your trust; I will definitely work hard." Zhang Minghua first guaranteed seriously, then hesitated and said, "Leader..."

"Hmm? Something? Or do you have concerns?"

Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Li Xuewu frowned and asked, then said, "If you have anything to say, just say it directly; we will be brothers in the same trench from now on."

"Secretary-General..." Zhang Minghua looked at him and explained hesitantly, "My younger brother Zhang Mingyuan is also working in Liaodong; he..."

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