Chapter 968: Five Years and Another Five Years

Why are you looking at me!

Who in the entire rolling mill doesn't know I'm kind-hearted! Honest and simple!

You want me to think of a damaging idea?!

You found the wrong person, right?!

Li Li Xuewu saw Li Li Huai De's gaze sweep over, and his expression couldn't help but slightly stagnate.

"It's the end of the year; there's a batch of fat pigs ready for slaughter in the Third Regiment's reclamation area."

"Hmm, hmm, continue."

Li Li Huai De's solemn expression was relieved, and the thousand-jin heavy burden suddenly disintegrated at the moment Li Li Xuewu opened his mouth.

There is nothing in the rolling mill that Director Li Li Huai De can't solve!

If there is, it must be that he hasn't had time to ask Li Li Xuewu yet.

"Except for the Third Regiment reserving some for the New Year, I think our canteens can all bring them back and prepare for a New Year activity."

Li Li Xuewu took a sip of tea and explained in a gentle voice, "The production plan this year has been completed so well, and the university study activity has been carried out so thoroughly; it's time to celebrate."

"And then?"

Gu Gu Weijie was a bit anxious, listening to Li Li Xuewu beating around the bush, and asked, "What does this have to do with personnel management?"

"The relationship is too big."

Li Li Xuewu turned to look at Gu Gu Weijie and said, "With the theme of reporting labor achievements in production and construction, express condolences and praise to the employees fighting on the front line."

"Of course, to praise, there must be a one, two, three. Besides the excellent representatives of enterprise employees and advanced individuals who performed well this year, I think we can hold a technical competition."

"Technical competition?"

Gu Gu Weijie frowned slightly, swept a glance at Li Li Xuewu, and then looked at Li Li Huai De, trying to ask what he meant.

Li Li Huai De raised his head slightly and said to Li Li Xuewu, "How to calculate the sequence of technology?"

"That must be judged by comprehensive assessment of theoretical knowledge and professional skills!"

Li Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said, "From now on, we can start activity preparation and propaganda. It's just right to have time to hold the competition until the New Year on February 8th."

"First set the pork eating on February 6th when the competition ends; this is called 'eating someone's mouth short'."

"Then give a month of time for learning and exercise; this is called 'courtesy first, then soldiers'."

"Hold a theoretical and skill competition for six days after a month; this is called 'fair and reasonable'."

"Finally, say that unqualified personnel need to rotate labor and exercise; this is called 'having a groove and a track'."

"In the whole month of January, organize and coordinate senior skilled workers to form professional skill training teachers to go to workshops and departments to open training and education."

He stood up, pointed his finger at the calendar under the glass, and explained, "Today is December 29th; two days of activity preparation is enough. We can announce the start on the 31st."

"Starting from January 1st, all labor positions will carry out post skill training university study activities according to categories. The competition will officially start on February 1st, and end on February 6th. The assessment results will be announced when eating pork."

"Stretch the list, set the high and low, and set the passing line according to the proportion of department positions; it's fair and reasonable."

Li Li Xuewu sat back in his chair, looked at the two, and said, "Mainly assessing safety standardization, post operation procedures, post skill practical operation, etc., strictly enforcing examination discipline, and ensuring fair results."

"Those with excellent results should be praised and rewarded, and can have skill level adjustments or labor title commendations."

"Even high-value material rewards like radios, electric fans, and televisions can be used to enhance the enthusiasm of employees for competition."

"Those with results above the passing line will retain their original positions, or adjust technical positions according to the skill competition results and actual production needs."

"Those with results below the passing line—nothing to say, skills are inferior to others, willing to bet and lose, sent down to the construction labor team for production and re-learning."

"Post adjustment and elimination will be completed before and after the New Year in February, giving employees enough time to react and learn, and also giving everyone time to spend the New Year."

"In March, the new employees of the second phase of the first batch can take up their posts, which can alleviate the production pressure of positions to a certain extent and will not affect the production plan."

"In May, another batch of new employees will take up their posts. The pressure of learning and exercise for the eliminated employees will become greater and greater, and the labor enthusiasm of new employees will also be greatly improved."

Li Li Xuewu looked at Li Li Huai De and the two, and said, "Now that there is pork to eat, time to learn, a competition range set, and heavy rewards given, even if sent down for labor, no one will say anything, right?"

"Hmm, makes sense!"

Li Li Huai De's eyes lit up when he heard this. He pointed at Li Li Xuewu with an expression of "You're really damaging," and said, "We must form personnel vacuum in various workshops and departments and create post competition pressure!"

"First eliminate the labor workers who are lax in labor discipline, lazy in usual performance, and unqualified in skill assessment!"

He pointed at Gu Gu Weijie at this moment and said, "Throwing this part of people into the construction team can accelerate the construction speed of existing engineering projects!"

Gu Gu Weijie listened to his words, her brain spinning, but the emotions expressed on her face were completely in agreement.

Only when Li Li Huai De turned his head to look at Li Li Xuewu and asked about the shortage of labor construction forces, her gaze glanced at Li Li Xuewu, but it wasn't a good look.

Old Li is really crazy!

You believe Li Li Xuewu's words?

You're stupid enough to be sold by Li Li Xuewu and still follow him and shout good!

You only saw him come up with a damaging idea to eliminate workers, but didn't see that he is also pitting you!

Think about it carefully!

Is this kid the kind of person who can hold a boat in his belly!

You gave him a stumble, and he returned you a knife, which doesn't even count; he has to kick you to be satisfied!

You two were so good before, and then you insisted on getting Jin Jin Yaohui and Shi Shi Ruoweng to disgust him and restrain him.

Now you watch, Shi Shi Ruoweng is lying in the hospital and doesn't dare to come back. This knife didn't stab properly, so he must pit you!

This idea is really damaging!

Wait until the workers scold who!

"Existing engineering construction projects include three factory areas of food industry, electronic appliance factory, shipyard, automobile manufacturing factory, hardware manufacturing factory, third industry and joint production manufacturing factory, security residential area, worker village, steelmaking factory metallurgical industry."

Li Li Xuewu saw Gu Gu Weijie's strange look, but Li Li Huai De was talking to him, so he had no time to think.

"Automobile manufacturing factory is to complete construction in March, shipyard before June, food industry before August, electronic appliance factory before August..."

He didn't even need to flip through the notebook, just reciting, and Li Li Huai De's brows furrowed again.

"Calculated completely, next year's engineering construction work needs to invest about 15,000 construction workers."

Li Li Xuewu reported seriously, "Except for the more than 2,000 people that Dongfeng Construction is responsible for coordinating, local construction units have provided part of the engineering construction forces. It is estimated that there is still a gap of about 8,000 to 10,000 people."

"So many?!"

Li Li Huai De's hand on the table trembled slightly, then he clenched his fist, hesitated for a moment, and said firmly, "Then these 8,000 people will be deployed in batches from existing service offices, logistics offices, and other agency departments, as well as front-line production labor workshops."

"Aren't there 20,000 people finishing training and taking up posts next year! Just top them up in batches!"

He also made up his mind, pointed at Gu Gu Weijie and said, "Strive to achieve the elimination target of 11,000 people before the end of the year!"

This Old Li is going crazy!

The scolding of 8,000 people is enough for him, and now he wants to add a lever!

Gu Gu Weijie's heart was drumming; she looked at Li Li Huai De and then at Li Li Xuewu, unable to figure out what abacus the two were playing.

This wouldn't be bypassing her, right? Don't turn around and end up with her, the one watching the fun, carrying the pot!

No, this matter must be clarified!

Gu Gu Weijie calculated in her heart. She had also mentioned just now that the rolling mill had 15,000 original employees at the beginning of the year, added 3,000 automobile professional technical workers, and added 2,500 shipbuilding professional technical workers.

Next year, another 3,500 merged automobile manufacturing workers will be added. How much is this?

These employees and logistics service personnel added another 17,000 fresh troops, and overall threw away 11,000 labor construction forces.

If calculated according to the existing employee number elimination ratio, that is a 40.7% elimination rate.

If calculated according to the total employee base elimination ratio, it must also be a 29.7% elimination rate.

That is to say, even if temporary workers, service teams, logistics teams, etc., who do not have actual productivity are used as the main force for deployment.

Then when all projects achieve production by the end of next year, 30% to 40% of people will participate in engineering construction.

From a positive perspective, this suggestion greatly alleviated the investment pressure of the factory and reduced the human resource waste she was most worried about.

Especially the technical competition, the activity of post adjustment, once launched, will definitely stimulate the learning and work enthusiasm of existing employees.

The problem of personnel bloating that originally existed in production workshops and service departments will be thoroughly solved.

Especially the personnel vacuum mentioned by Li Li Huai De, and the purpose of manufacturing post competition pressure, are in line with the policy of daring to act and being brave to act in the process of the rolling mill's group goal.

But!

Gu Gu Weijie knew too clearly the political risks represented here, and believed Li Li Xuewu and Li Li Huai De couldn't see it.

"Director Li, skill competition is fine, distribution is fine, reducing service logistics posts is fine."

She reminded seriously, "But such large-scale post mobilization and adjustment, you must pay attention to the ideological fluctuations of these 8,000 people, these 11,000 people."

"Comrade Li Xuewu gave me several suggestions on this problem last week."

Li Li Huai De flipped through the documents in front of him and said, "The premise of labor post requisition work must be correct propaganda orientation and political ideological education."

"First of all, we must emphasize the spirit of dedication. In order to realize the grand goal of groupization, in order to complete the construction of third industry projects, and in order to complete the construction of trade production projects, we must not only form worker construction teams."

He raised his head and looked at Gu Gu Weijie, and continued, "We must also form youth assault teams and labor production culture propaganda teams."

"We must also draw cadres from factory agencies, and establish advanced ideological consciousness with cadres taking the lead, youth taking the lead, and party members taking the lead..."

Listening to Li Li Huai De turning things around, endowing this labor team with deeper political mission and labor significance from the political stance and fundamental significance.

Gu Gu Weijie turned her head in slight surprise and looked at Li Li Xuewu; the meaning in her eyes couldn't be more obvious: You are really damaging!

Not counting eliminating 8,000 people, now you have to cut off a part of agency cadres.

That is to say, after solving the problem of personnel bloating in labor posts at one time, we have to solve the problem of people floating in management posts.

Good job!

From Li Li Huai De's words, one can hear that this task is arduous, glorious, and endowed with historical mission.

You just say, which of these selected cadres dares to refute?

Workers can strive to keep their posts through technical competition, but cadres in agencies can only obey the deployment!

Li Li Xuewu read Gu Gu Weijie's eyes, turned to look at her and smiled, and took over, "I suggest that Deputy Director Shi Shi Ruoweng of the management committee office lead the agency cadre team to the production front line to labor and set an example!"

Li Li Huai De saw Gu Gu Weijie's surprised look and nodded, indicating that Li Li Xuewu had already communicated this matter with him.

He also said, "The production construction goal is not completed for one day, the cadre team taking the lead will never be withdrawn, and more cadres will be continuously delegated and drawn down to labor and exercise, determined to accelerate the construction speed of the rolling mill's engineering projects."

"..."

Gu Gu Weijie understood a bit; this suggestion is not only to solve the problem of people floating in the rolling mill's agency posts, but the deeper layout is that Li Li Huai De and Li Li Xuewu are completing the adjustment of the cadre team.

Other factories are now adjusting cadres in the name of university study, delegating and exercising, and the rolling mill is about the same.

It's just relatively milder, at least retaining the basic treatment and development opportunities of cadres.

This is naturally not to fix them, but to endow them with the historical mission of taking the lead in labor, and to sweat and sacrifice for the rolling mill's group goal.

They are going to take the lead in labor, but they are also managing these labor workers on the front line as management posts.

Li Li Huai De also said that the engineering project will not be completed for one day, and these cadres will not be withdrawn for one day.

Good guy, she hadn't read Li Li Xuewu's project construction development plan, but this pole was at least supported to five years later.

The agency's posts in these five years naturally cannot have no one to do things. The high school students and university students recruited in May or June this year are just being used.

Young grassroots cadres will continuously emerge to middle management posts, gradually replacing the old stubborns with old ideas, and realizing the rejuvenation and innovation of the cadre team.

As for how to handle those cadres deployed to the labor team, who can tell clearly about things five years later.

In case there are any construction projects added in these five years, it's hard to say if it will be delayed for another five years.

Five years and another five years, five years and another five years; these people basically have no competitiveness after retirement.

Gu Gu Weijie thought of this, and cold sweat flowed from behind her head. She really didn't expect that this pit really fell under her feet.

But Li Li Huai De and Li Li Xuewu invited her to hold a meeting, isn't it another level of compromise and discussion?

She is the one managing personnel cadres, and the specific implementation plan and management system still have to be executed by her.

First she was given a certain amount of pressure, then she was given a solution, and now she is given a cake; you say she has anything else to say.

"Secondly, we must emphasize the spirit of learning."

Li Li Huai De was still talking, "In the process of labor construction, we must strengthen collective learning and self-learning!"

"We must regularly organize post skill assessment, and excellent workers should be readjusted to take up posts, either returning to the original workshop or being adjusted to positions that need them more."

Good heavens!

Just now when Li Li Huai De emphasized personnel post changes, the 11,000 he bit... the unit is not people, but person-times.

That is to say, after going down to the labor team, they are not forever in the labor team; as long as the assessment is qualified, they will return to production posts.

The pressure in Gu Gu Weijie's heart was suddenly reduced a lot. The post adjustment of more than 8,000 people, without this tie-breaking, would definitely cause a big scene.

Li Li Huai De dared to say it, naturally he had preparation. He continued to emphasize, "Furthermore, we must emphasize the welfare treatment problem."

"In any position, there is a matching post wage; the technical level does not change, and the wage still does not change."

He said this sentence very clearly: post adjustment is not punishment, it is just the rolling mill re-allocating labor work according to the employee's labor ability and technical ability.

The wage doesn't change, the treatment doesn't change, the welfare doesn't change; it's just that the location and method of labor have changed.

"Four is to emphasize the consciousness of masters and successors, and have a big picture view and correct technical concepts."

Li Li Huai De said, "The rolling mill now has many newly recruited employees, most of whom are children of employees; the posts to be adjusted are also for their children."

"We don't engage in the old customs of fathers passing to sons; that is backward ideology. We just engage in technical competition!"

"You have been adjusted; either realize self-improvement, compete for posts with technical strength, and compete for posts with ability."

"Otherwise, you must obey the big picture and must give way to the future of the rolling mill and the future of the employees' own children."

Gu Gu Weijie glanced at Li Li Huai De, lowered her head and silently took notes, still calculating in her heart.

"Regarding the future of this construction team, I have several suggestions and plans."

Li Li Xuewu took the initiative to speak, "By the end of next year, the number of labor team workers will reach 11,000. I estimate that 3,000 to 4,000 people will be able to return to production posts."

"That is to say, the total number has gone up, and the number of people returning to study also exists; it's just that people are continuously being eliminated, realizing a virtuous cycle."

"According to next year's new recruitment employee indicators, the number of this labor team will remain at a dynamic level of 7,000 to 8,000 people within two years."

"My suggestion is to continuously cultivate new employees to join production posts, and continuously eliminate unqualified technical workers to labor posts."

"The total number of rolling mill workers at the end of next year is estimated to be about 40,000. 8,000 people account for one-fifth, which just proves that the rolling mill's technical exercise and production labor are meaningful."

"These 8,000 people are continuously invested in engineering construction, not only exercising their ideology and tempering their will, but also supporting the rolling mill's engineering construction work in the next five years."

"Existing including Beijing Worker Village, Steel City Worker Village, Liangma River Industrial Zone, Steel City Convalescent Resort, newly built Steel City Rolling Industrial Base, and other projects' scientific research, education, living, and other construction facilities will be launched within the next five years. Construction is a big problem."

"With these 8,000 people, we only need Dongfeng Construction to bear the technical management and engineering management parts. While saving construction funds, we can also exercise the worker team, killing many birds with one stone."

"I agree with this opinion of Comrade Li Xuewu."

Li Li Huai De took a stop-smoking pill, was busy with his hands, and didn't idle his mouth.

"Beijing, Steel City, Yingcheng, three production areas will maintain a production force of 30,000 people and retain a construction production force of 8,000 people. We must continue to recruit workers in the next five years."

"Of course, it is impossible to delegate indicators of thousands of people in batches like today."

Li Li Huai De looked at Gu Gu Weijie and explained, "The focus of recruitment will be placed on the worker cultivation of our own vocational technical schools, as well as the recruitment of high school graduates and university students inside and outside the school."

"Five years!"

He raised his hand and gestured a palm, saying, "Five years later, we can basically realize the complete construction of existing projects, and newly added projects will have continuous construction capabilities."

"New employees have highly standardized and compliant technical production capabilities, the financial situation completes a virtuous cycle, and the whole factory completely transitions to the group production management mode..."

Gu Gu Weijie could see that Li Li Huai De highly approved of this personnel opinion of Li Li Xuewu.

In the subsequent communication, she didn't mention new problems, and expressed that she would revise the personnel work plan for next year and discuss it at the meeting next Monday.

Because Li Li Xuewu had to have a meeting with Li Li Huai De and the visiting Italian business representatives later, she came out first.

At the moment she went out, she looked back at the two people who were still discussing, and a meaningful smile appeared on her face.

The old fox wants to calculate everyone, and the little fox wants to remove the stool, dismantle the old fox's mass and political foundation, and unload one of the old fox's legs.

This game is really fun!

"This damn thing can also be called a blueprint?!"

At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Li Xuewu, as a commercial representative, welcomed Andrew and his party who were visiting downstairs at the guest house.

The scene of the other party was quite large, not because Andrew brought many people, but because there were many commercial service personnel configured for him from above.

Li Li Xuewu just swept a glance, and after greeting these people, he took Andrew and others to the conference room on the second floor.

The conference room of the main office building is mainly used for internal meetings, and currently, external meetings are basically at the guest house.

In the future, for external meetings or considering the convenience in the city, they will also consider holding reception meetings at the International Hotel.

Everyone just exchanged a few pleasantries, and at Li Li Huai De's invitation, they sat down on both sides of the conference table.

Andrew came with great sincerity this time, and also had to leave with a definite attitude.

So at the beginning of expressing his opinion, he submitted a thick stack of shipbuilding blueprints to the rolling mill side.

Xia Xia Zhongquan, as the technical chief engineer, also attended the meeting with the shipbuilding technical engineers of the technical office.

Li Li Xuewu sat beside him, listening to Andrew's speech, and casually stretched out a shipbuilding design blueprint to look at it.

Just when he was fiddling with the blueprint in his hand, he couldn't help but whisper to Xia Xia Zhongquan beside him, "This damn thing can also be called a design blueprint?"

After saying this, he curled his lips and said disdainfully, "Drawing what kind of shit, it's not even as good as what I draw."

"..."

Xia Xia Zhongquan was stunned, looked at the blueprint in Li Li Xuewu's hand, and recalled the soul design works of this soul designer in the past, and tears almost fell down.

He was also used to seeing soul masterpieces, and really felt a bit of inexplicable heartache for this kind of "standard" design draft.

"It's indeed not as good as what you draw; at least it lacks some soul here."

"..."

Zhou, a shipbuilding expert from Huaging, was sitting next to them. Hearing the conversation between the two, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

The look in his eyes when looking at Xia Xia Zhongquan even carried a little bit of pity, and a few more points of disdain.

Pity is for respecting Xia Xia Zhongquan for really being able to endure humiliation, and disdain is for Old Xia's flattery being a bit sycophantic.

"Hmm, you still understand me!"

Li Li Xuewu nodded with a smile, giving Xia Xia Zhongquan a look that we are our own people.

He considered himself a soul harvester, with more than two hundred souls in his hand. You want to compare soul design with him?

Who said that! Stand out and let me see!

I think your soul is particularly suitable for this design draft of mine; lend it to me!

Xia Xia Zhongquan completely admired and praised Li Li Xuewu's design ability, but he really didn't dare to compliment Li Li Xuewu's design works.

Facing Li Li Xuewu's smile, what could he do?

Naturally, he had to return an admiring smile, and then pretend to listen to the Italian business representative's speech and turn his head away.

Andrew had already inspected the rolling mill's production and operation capabilities last time, and personally accompanied Li Li Xuewu to Jicheng to visit the shipyard.

Coming this time, it wasn't just a matter of continuing negotiations, but he brought a complete set of cooperation and procurement plans with a very clear attitude.

Inside, it included the fiberglass production equipment and technology talked about last time, as well as detailed labeling of production equipment and technology for power assembly systems such as diesel engines, transmissions, gearboxes, generators, etc.

Andrew stated that the complete production equipment and technology he could provide only included the parts mentioned above, and the rest would need to be procured domestically.

Li Li Xuewu had prepared for a long time for today's negotiation, so naturally, he wasn't stumped by his problem.

As the commercial negotiation representative of the rolling mill, he also took the initiative to explain the production cooperation of core parts.

Except for fiberglass needing to complete cooperation with the Beijing Glass Factory, other equipment would be independently produced by the rolling mill.

Andrew had already received the cooperation plan regarding this part, so both sides quickly completed the negotiation agreement for core parts.

"Yacht manufacturing is not a job that one person or one factory can complete."

He sat on the other side of the desk, spread his hands and said, "I don't doubt the rolling mill's shipbuilding ability, but yachts are very special, especially parts procurement."

"Mr. Andrew."

Li Li Xuewu spoke in French directly, and at the same time gestured to the other party's accompanying secretary, asking the other party to translate it into Chinese for others to hear.

"Our factory's decision to take on your company's production order task is not talking big with a hot head, and even less is it deceiving your time and feelings; our goals are consistent."

He said very sincerely, "The road of development and construction will definitely not be a smooth one. We are willing to work with your company, work together, and solve the bumps and difficulties encountered on the road of development."

"I also ask Mr. Andrew to have confidence in our cooperation like us; any problems and difficulties can be raised."

"Thank you, Mr. Li Li Xuewu."

Andrew nodded to the accompanying personnel, looked at the concerned gazes of everyone in the conference room, and then opened his mouth to speak, "I want to raise several procurement requirements."

Li Li Xuewu calmly raised his head slightly, signaling that he could speak, and he was listening.

Andrew nodded and opened his mouth, "First is the engine room auxiliary machinery, including air compressors and supporting equipment, air conditioning refrigeration, pressure vessels, and other equipment."

"Good, can, no problem."

Li Li Xuewu seriously picked up a cooperation document from his side and placed it in the middle of the table.

"This is a cooperation agreement between our factory and the Beijing Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing Factory; the main content is the procurement of equipment for the modification of refrigerated trains."

While the translator was softly detailing the content of the document to the other party, Li Li Xuewu also gave a simple introduction, "Including air compressors, air conditioners, and pressure vessels, we can all contact the refrigeration equipment factory to complete the production task according to the procurement standards proposed by your side."

The translator nodded to Andrew after finishing the translation, indicating the authenticity and completeness of the document's content.

Andrew was a bit surprised; he didn't expect the rolling mill to possess large equipment like refrigerated transport trains.

He looked at the document in the translator's hand, turned to look at Li Li Xuewu and continued to raise, "We need to procure deck machinery, including mooring equipment, ship anchors, anchor chains, chain stoppers, etc."

"And."

He didn't wait for Li Li Xuewu to answer and continued to raise, "Lifebuoys, life rafts, waterproof suits, thermal insulation suits, thermal suits, fire extinguishers, and other fire-fighting equipment."

"Instruments and meters, electronic appliances, wires and circuits, communication electronics, and other navigational electrical appliances."

"Spraying equipment, sandblasting equipment, abrasives, special paints, and other surface treatment tools."

He raised a whole bunch of procurement requirements in one breath, as if to emphasize the special nature of yacht manufacturing.

"Don't mention paints and spraying tools; we are a professional shipyard."

Li Li Xuewu's answer here was very dry and direct, "Deck machinery, navigational electrical appliances, engineering equipment, surface treatment, etc., needs can be directly procured and assembled from Yingcheng Shipyard."

"We also have instruments and electrical control equipment in Yingcheng Shipyard. If you have special requirements, we also have a professional design research team to execute special production guidance."

He flipped through the documents and provided a cooperation document with the Beijing Television Factory to the translator.

"Our factory is currently cooperating with the Beijing Television Factory to engage in third industry industrial construction regarding electrical instruments and other engineering production needs."

I don't know if the translator can explain the significance of the third industry to the other party, but Li Li Xuewu didn't care.

"Lifebuoys, life rafts, waterproof suits, thermal insulation suits, thermal suits, fire extinguishers, and other fire-fighting equipment are even less of a problem."

Li Li Xuewu turned his head and looked at Li Li Huai De with a smile, "Our factory possesses its own fire-fighting equipment manufacturing factory, and the product sales are very successful."

Li Li Huai De felt the confidence from Li Li Xuewu, and he also smiled slightly, his gaze toward Andrew full of pride.

You, a family-style shipyard, how dare you compare with a trust-style group enterprise committed to construction? A mantis trying to stop a chariot.

We are called a rolling mill; do you really take us for rolling steel?!

Li Li Huai De is increasingly looking forward to establishing a group company; in the future, it will be called Red Star Group, the kind that makes people envious when they hear it.

Sitting in the conference room were not just people from the rolling mill, and even less purely Italian business representatives. Cadres from other departments such as the Foreign Affairs Department, the Ministry of Industry, etc., saw Andrew's meaning and also revealed playful smiles.

Andrew saw Li Li Xuewu answer so easily, frowned, and looked at the document Li Li Xuewu handed over very seriously.

The translator quickly explained the content of the contract to him and made a reliable guarantee regarding the relevant cooperation.

"Yacht manufacturing is a very complex and rigorous project."

Andrew seemed to be annotating his own nitpicking and worries. At this moment, he looked at the document in his hand and continued, "In addition to industrial foundation, it also needs rich living equipment."

"Including office, living, kitchen, hygiene, furniture, electrical appliances, decoration, etc."

He explained, "On a yacht, welding, cutting, flaw detection will be used, and special glass, hardware, plastic, rubber, steel, wood, etc., will be needed."

"Hahaha~"

Li Li Xuewu didn't have any surprise at Andrew's emphasis, and even laughed lightly.

His performance today didn't look like he didn't understand yachts at all, just like when he looked at the blueprints just now.

What Xia Xia Zhongquan admired most was this point of his: no matter whether he understands or not, he

"Specialty glass, hardware, plastics, rubber, and steel can all be procured from the joint third-industry enterprises."

Li Li Xuewu spread his hands and smiled, stating: "I have said before, please have confidence in our cooperation; we are a very large enterprise."

"As for the office, living, kitchen, sanitation, electrical appliances, wooden furniture, and decorations you mentioned, we can produce them ourselves."

"For what our plant cannot produce, there are the joint enterprises; for what the joint enterprises cannot produce, we can still procure them from supply chain enterprises."

Li Li Xuewu pointed to the wooden furniture item mentioned in the proposal and introduced: "Coincidentally, we also just received news."

As he said this, his gaze swept over everyone at the conference table, and he smiled as he said: "Our plant's cooperative distribution unit is just about to invest in building a large-scale furniture manufacturing plant in Jinmen."

"Hahaha~"

Hearing Li Li Xuewu's witty tone, everyone in the conference room chuckled.

Although Andrew was skeptical in his heart, he still maintained a gentlemanly smile on his face.

He did indeed want to use the complexity of yacht manufacturing to make things difficult for the Rolling Mill during the negotiations.

Don't say that foreigners don't understand the "show of force"; they play that game very well!

The willingness to cooperate was very strong, but that did not prevent him from intentionally making things difficult for the Rolling Mill.

As long as the Rolling Mill showed even a hint of ambiguity or hesitation at the negotiating table today, they would be suppressed in terms of momentum by the other side.

This concerns the issue of initiative and the right to speak throughout the entire subsequent cooperation process.

Andrew did not expect the Rolling Mill side to be so well-prepared, providing solutions and answers for all problems.

It was as if the Rolling Mill had everything, just waiting for an old man like him to provide a design and manufacturing plan.

In today's poker game, the trump card he played first at the start had no effect at all on Li Li Xuewu.

Others might be shocked, bewildered, or filled with reverence and admiration upon seeing that stack of drawings.

But to Li Li Xuewu, it could only earn the evaluation: "What kind of bullshit is this drawing? It's not even as good as what I draw."

This is called "the ignorant are fearless"; when a scholar meets a soldier, reason cannot be explained clearly.

Andrew knew he couldn't win the argument, but he still had a backup plan.

Just as the negotiations were drawing to a close, Andrew invited the Rolling Mill's delegation to go to Jinmen and visit the Yingcheng Shipyard together for on-site inspection and office work.

This arrangement had been reported by the Italian side in advance; proposing the invitation on the spot was just a means for Andrew to show politeness.

As the person in charge of the Rolling Mill, Li Huai De first expressed his gratitude for Andrew's invitation, and he also issued an invitation to Andrew on behalf of the Rolling Mill.

He invited the other company to station themselves at the Rolling Mill's trade center in Jinmen to conduct business.

Both sides ended the negotiations in an atmosphere of mutual courtesy and harmony.

The guesthouse restaurant had long prepared a Chinese-style feast to entertain the "God of Wealth" of the Rolling Mill.

According to the negotiation meeting schedule, after lunch, Li Huai De and Li Li Xuewu led the relevant personnel from the Rolling Mill's Foreign Affairs Office, Economic and Trade Office, Technical Office, and Management Committee Office, accompanied the Andrew team, and together with relevant comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, and the Ministry of Industry, rushed to the Beijing Railway Station and boarded the train to Jinmen.

Li Huai De's proactive invitation at the negotiation meeting was the same as Andrew's fake courtesy.

Andrew had long communicated with Li Li Xuewu's side that he would station his technical team and production management team in Jinmen.

Due to the situation and political conditions, it just so happened that the Jinmen Trade Management Center had rented a few offices for work.

Why station the office in Jinmen?

The office should have been in Yingcheng, but the technical workers and management team were brought by him; these people were foreigners who needed life and entertainment, which the mainland certainly would not and could not provide.

The Jinmen port terminal often has cargo ships traveling to and from Hong Kong, and his people all have "homes" in Hong Kong, so stationing the office in Jinmen is convenient for these foreigners to return to Hong Kong for vacations.

The lifestyle of foreigners is different from that of mainland workers; what they emphasize is that work is work, but there must be life and entertainment.

Especially in this era, technical personnel are highly sought after and are all Andrew's treasures.

This time, Andrew's trade negotiation team would accompany Li Huai De to Jinmen and stay at the Jinmen Trade Management Center for one night.

Both sides also had a simple move-in ceremony at the Jinmen Trade Management Center, and Andrew also had to arrange for people to start working directly.

Tomorrow morning, Li Li Xuewu will serve as the Rolling Mill's negotiation representative and accompany others on Andrew's yacht to the Yingcheng Shipyard for inspection and negotiation.

It was impossible for Li Huai De to sit on the other party's boat, especially for this kind of cross-sea voyage; what if something went wrong?

Andrew's technical and production management team was already waiting in Jinmen and would join the fleet to Yingcheng, where they would provide a construction supplement plan.

The temporary negotiation process was like this; what Li Li Xuewu could see now was that this old guy Andrew seemed to want to show off to him.

Because this trade negotiation team was relatively important and had a large number of people, they coordinated a soft-seat carriage with the Beijing Station.

The train ride was also quite interesting; Li Huai De knew the accompanying cadres from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade.

Liu Liu Shaozong, Deputy Director of the Planning Division of the First Bureau of the Ministry of Industry.

Gao Gao Yaqin, Deputy Director of the Technical Division for Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade.

And that accompanying Deputy Director from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was Li Li Xuewu's old acquaintance, Zhou Zhou Gancheng.

He was the foreign affairs cadre who handled Li Shu's case in the Northeast back then.

The two stood at the train connection, each holding a cigarette without lighting it, looking at each other in silence, which was quite comical.

Seeing the strange look in Zhou Zhou Gancheng's eyes when he looked at him, Li Li Xuewu understood that the meaning was: how did you kid also become a deputy director!