After Chen Qingdong got on the tricycle, he said to the old man: "Uncle, go to the gate of the county No. 1 Middle School." ”

"All right, young man, you are seated!" replied the old man, stepped on his bicycle, and pedaled hard.

Although this old man is old, his body is quite tough, his skills are also very athletic, and the car is not slow, Chen Qingdong saw it, and then persuaded: "Uncle, it's not far anyway, you don't need to ride so fast." ”

The old man smiled and said, "It's okay, I ride this car every day, I'm used to it, and I don't feel tired." If it weren't for the fact that there were so many people on the road at this point in time, I would have been able to ride faster. ”

Chen Qingdong saw that the old man looked very cheerful, so he smiled and chatted: "Uncle, how old are you this year, I see that you are in good health!"

The old man smiled and said, "Young man, you may not believe what I said, but in fact, I am only fifty-one years old this year. ”

Hearing this number, Chen Qingdong was indeed surprised, and looked at the old man a few more times, but no matter how he looked at it, this old man looked like a sixty or seventy-year-old person, and he really couldn't tell that he was only fifty-one years old!

Seeing that Chen Qingdong was a little silent, the old man laughed again: "Young man, I know you can't see it, if people who don't know my age see me, they will definitely think that I am about sixty and almost seventy!"

Chen Qingdong said honestly: "Uncle, maybe you ride a bicycle every day, the wind and the sun are exposed, so your age looks a little old, but your body bones look really good." ”

"Hehe, I grew up in the countryside since I was a child, and later I went to the countryside to serve as a soldier, and I exercised my body and bones. The old man said, leaving Chen Qingdong with a back of pedaling a bicycle, which is indeed more stretched.

"Uncle, have you ever been to the countryside?" asked Chen Qingdong with interest.

"That's it!" the old man looked a little proud, "I am a 68-year-old township, the third old, and I went to Yunnan ......"

Speaking of this, the old man's tone suddenly darkened, shook his head and said: "Alas, it feels like it's all in front of me, so many years have passed in a flash, think about it now, although the days at that time were hard, and the food and clothing were not enough, but everyone lived the same life at that time, and the human touch was also heavy, and the heart was comfortable......

Chen Qingdong also had some emotion about the old man's words, he read the information, and deeply knew that the so-called "old three" group of people were actually a group of people who were abandoned by history, and the society owed them a lot, but since this old man later became a soldier, he should be regarded as a person who changed his fate, how could he pedal a tricycle at this age?

Anyway, he was idle, so Chen Qingdong asked: "Uncle, didn't you become a soldier later? Didn't the state assign you a job?"

"The work was divided, but the luck was not good, and it was not assigned to the agency, but to the enterprise. In fact, at that time, a very familiar chief of the army transferred to our Longwan City, worked in the Ministry of Armed Forces, and was still a deputy minister, if I went to look for him, I should be able to communicate with the organ, because I did have two comrades-in-arms who found me as the chief at that time, and they exchanged from the enterprise to the government unit, and they also called them to go together, but at that time, the efficiency of the enterprise was good, and the wages of being a worker were more than being a cadre, and my vision was not so far, so I didn't go with them, alas......"

The old man sighed, and then said: "Who knows that the company has been on fire for many years, and it will not work, am I not also laid off, I can't find a job if I want to, and I don't have much capital to do some business, so I have to pedal a tricycle, although it is inferior, but I can earn a few small money and eat a little food." ”

Chen Qingdong comforted: "Uncle, there is nothing inferior to pedaling a tricycle, didn't Chairman Mao also say that revolutionary work is only different in the division of labor, and there is no distinction between high and low." ”

It's just that Chen Qingdong's "Chicken Soup for the Soul" comforts and comforts those children who have never been in the world, but it is useless for this old man who has experienced vicissitudes and is now very bad.

However, the old man also knew that Chen Qingdong had a good intention when he said this, and he definitely didn't mean to say strange things to laugh at him, so he laughed twice and didn't speak.

Chen Qingdong also felt that his "Chicken Soup for the Soul" was not very good, so he was a little embarrassed, so he changed the topic and asked casually: "Uncle, which company in our county were you assigned to at that time?"

"It's not from the county seat, it's from the town below. The old man said, "Have you heard of the wood carving factory in Shuangshan Town, young man?"

Chen Qingdong couldn't help but feel moved when he heard this, thinking that this world is really small, and he even met an old worker who was laid off from the Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory here.

Chen Qingdong knows that this Shuangshan wood carving factory used to be a star enterprise in the county, and at its peak, whether it was the scale of the Shuangshan wood carving factory, the number of employees, or the benefits and tax payments, it was in the forefront of the county! However, since the mid-90s, in the tide of layoffs caused by the restructuring of state-owned enterprises across the country, although the Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory has not been restructured, it has also transferred the original meritorious general manager of the wood carving factory, who is over 50 years old, to the county CPPCC for the elderly, and Tang Xudong, a young deputy director of the county planning commission in his thirties, to the Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory as general manager.

Tang Xudong is an authentic college student who graduated from the Department of Economics of a bachelor's degree, and is also a young elite, deeply appreciated by Cheng Xuehong, the county magistrate at the time, and he was appointed as the general manager of Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory, which was also questioned by many people at the time, because many people think that Tang Xudong is too young, his qualifications are shallow, and his work experience is not enough, so it is difficult to take the helm of Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory.

However, with the strong support of Cheng Xuehong, Tang Xudong successfully became the general manager of Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory.

Tang Xudong served as Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory, the work style is tough, to promote the work of the speed and resoluteness, less than a month after the inauguration, the organization of a high-level team including the county magistrate Cheng Xuehong, the deputy county magistrate in charge of the enterprise, the director of the Finance Bureau, the director of the Economic and Trade Commission and other senior officials, went to the field to inspect several famous wood carving factories, to find a new opportunity for the transformation and development of Shuangshan wood carving factory!

After coming back, Tang Xudong did show the means of a reformer, launched a performance appraisal system and the last elimination system, and also laid off a group of old and frail or weak workers with weak work ability, carried out the reform of modern mechanical operation in the enterprise, and showed the skill of a reformer!

It's just that although the reform has made a lot of effort, there have been a lot of movements, but the effect is very surprising, not only failed to find a new opportunity for the development of the wood carving factory, so that the benefits of the wood carving factory to a higher level, but the effect of the reform is very bad, can not help but not go further, but from then on, the efficiency has been declining day by day.

In this case, the leadership of Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory headed by Tang Xudong thought of a lot of ways to reform, but the development of Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory fell into a strange circle of more reform, more regression, and finally made a huge decision-making mistake at the end of 1998, resulting in serious losses in Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory, and since then it has been in a slump, resulting in a star enterprise that is now mixed to the point of insolvency!

Although Tang Xudong, the person in charge of this situation, also assumed leadership responsibility and resigned, but with the support of the county magistrate Cheng Xuehong, in less than half a year, Tang Xudong was reactivated, and even returned to the county planning commission, and also became the deputy secretary and deputy director of the party group, especially with the strong support of Cheng Xuehong, almost overthrew the director of the planning commission, and in the county's project approval, speaking is more effective than the director of the planning commission, which can be called a one-handed cover, and this situation has not completely changed until now!

In addition, Chen Qingdong also heard that this Tang Xudong can't help but serve as the deputy director of the Planning Commission, and he is also doing business outside, as if the business is still very big, and he is worth millions, which can be called the first person in Liulin County to get rich!

Of course, these things are all Chen Qingdong learned intermittently when listening to other people's chats, because Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory is a county-owned enterprise, and there is not much contact with the Shuangshan Town Government, and it used to be a star enterprise in the county, so the vision is very high, so he does not look at the Shuangshan Town Government too much, so after Chen Qingdong worked in the Shuangshan Town Government, although he was in the enterprise, he did not have much contact with the Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory.

In addition, in the turbulent but dismal days of the reform of the Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory in the past few years, Chen Qingdong was still in school and had no opportunity to experience it personally, so it was impossible to know too clearly.

However, Chen Qingdong has always been very interested in the affairs of Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory, and today he met an old worker of the Wood Carving Factory here, so he wanted to take this opportunity to inquire more, and said: "Shuangshan Wood Carving Factory used to be a star enterprise in our county, everyone has heard of this name, of course I also know." ”

The old man sighed: "Indeed! In the past, when the wood carving factory was booming, I didn't dare to say anything else, just talk about the food in the canteen, which is also well-known in our county, and I am not afraid to compare it with the canteen of any unit! Let's put it this way, when we ate at that time, in addition to breakfast, there was meat for lunch and dinner, and we also ate white flour steamed buns!

"It's really a cow!" Chen Qingdong exclaimed, "But uncle, how could such a good company decay like this in a few years?"

"The reason is also very simple, in fact, it is just one word!" the old man said with some resentment, "Do!"

"How did you 'do it', can you tell me about it?"

"What is there to say about this? The leader treats the public property as his own, eats it casually, takes it as he likes, spoils it as he likes, uses money as a blank slate, and throws the machines he bought for hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts them in the warehouse for half a year, sells them for tens of thousands of yuan, and loses four or five hundred thousand yuan as soon as he enters and exits! What kind of household capacity do you say can withstand such corruption?" The old man said angrily, and at the same time turned his strength into strength and pedaled the car very fast.