Chapter 13: Beautiful Flatbread
Leng Yuming said so hardly, but when Zhai Jianguo, the director of the factory office, asked Du Xinxin to send the meeting notice to him, he still gave in, and at the appointed time, he came to the conference room of the factory office with a mutter, sat with a group of middle-level cadres of the same age, and exchanged helpless glances with each other.
In the era of Ning Zhongying, when Qingfeng Factory held a meeting of middle-level cadres, Ning Zhongying was responsible for the roll call. The old man stood up at the conference table and glanced around with the eagle's eyes to see who was absent. At this time, it is natural that someone will report the reason for the absence of the absentee to Ning Zhongying. If the reason is reasonable, Ning Zhongying will not have a second word; But if the reason is unreasonable, Ning Zhongying will call Wei Baolin, who was the director of the factory office at the time, and ask him to go to the broadcasting room to use a loudspeaker to inform the absentees to come to the meeting immediately, and the violators will be severely punished.
What punishment will be for absenteeism from Ning Zhongying's meeting is something that everyone has always wanted to know, but they have never been able to find an answer. The reason is very simple, that is, no one dared to challenge Ning Zhongying's authority, so until Ning Zhongying retreated, no one was really punished like this.
After Wei Baolin came to power, he vigorously promoted institutionalized, humanized and economical management reform in accordance with the requirements of modern management. He believes that using a loudspeaker to call people is an act of violating the rights of employees, and he will no longer use it. At the same time, he introduced economic means into enterprise management, stipulating that a number of bonuses would be deducted for absenteeism at a meeting, and wages would be deducted when there was no bonus. Because the economic benefits of Qingfeng Factory are like a day by day, the bonuses and benefits of employees have long been gone, and no one dares to joke about the wages in their hands, so every time Wei Baolin announces a meeting, the middle-level cadres must quickly throw down and obediently attend the meeting, no matter what they are busy with.
"Now for the roll call." Zhai Jianguo took out a booklet and began to point out the names of middle-level cadres one by one. Everyone who was called by him had to respond with a "yes", just like a primary school student in a school listening to the teacher's roll call.
"Xiang Jiyong!"
"Here!"
"Leng Yuming!"
"Here!"
"Director Wei, a total of 35 factory leaders and middle-level cadres, except for sick leave and business trips, should be 32 people, but there are 31 people, and now we can have a meeting" Zhai Jianguo finished the roll call, closed the booklet, and respectfully said to Wei Baolin, who was sitting on the main seat.
"Hmm." Wei Baolin nodded, the actual number of people was 1 less than the number of people who should have arrived, this is the practice of every factory meeting since he took office. The person who is missing is Ning Zhongying, the old factory director who is now the director of the research office. Ning Zhongying only took a back seat, not retired, and was still an incumbent factory leader, so it stands to reason that he should also come to attend the factory meeting. From the day she received the notice to step back, Ning Zhongying moved all her personal belongings back to her home, and then refused to participate in any activities in the factory. In this regard, Wei Baolin has no way at all, the regulations on deducting wages do not apply here in Ning Zhongying, and he did not dare to touch Ning Zhongying's tiger beard if he lent Wei Baolin a guts.
"Comrades, today's meeting, for our Qingfeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, is a life-and-death meeting, I hope you listen carefully, speak enthusiastically, and offer suggestions......" Wei Baolin used a serious language as his opening remarks, but completely forgot that he had said the same thing several times, and Qingfeng Factory was "been" life and death several times because of this.
"At present, the situation of our Qingfeng Agricultural Machinery Factory is obvious to all, that is, the products are backward and cannot adapt to the new situation and new requirements of the market. Practice shows that there is no way out to continue to guard the sunset industry of agricultural machinery, we must comply with the needs of the market, forge ahead, and enter the sunrise industry, so as to be able to reverse the current predicament and move towards a new world of all-round development. ”
Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and Zhai Jianguo lost no time in responding: "Director Wei's words are too good!" It's worth pondering! ”
The middle-level cadres present all felt a large area of cold prickly heat on their backs, including cadres who were quite disgusted with Wei Baolin like Xiang Jiyong, and some new cadres who were promoted by Wei Baolin. On weekdays, there are not a few middle-level cadres who shoot Wei Baolin's ass, but they can't find a second one who can shoot in a timely and righteous manner like Zhai Jianguo.
In movies and television, the kind of people who walk and shoot horses generally look like swertiers, and their faces are full of ripples when they smile. But Zhai Jianguo is a talent, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, when praising Wei Baolin, the expression on his face looks very solemn, no matter how you look at it, it seems to come from the heart.
At the beginning, everyone really thought that Zhai Jianguo was Wei Baolin's brain-dead fan, and they admired Wei Baolin's thoughts, and when they found out that Zhai Jianguo could even derive the glorious meaning of Wei Baolin's cough, everyone was left with endless disgust.
Maybe it's because of the authorities, Wei Baolin's praise for Zhai Jianguo has always been very useful, he nodded to Zhai Jianguo to show satisfaction, and then continued:
"Based on this consideration, Xiao Zhai and I have traveled north and south in the past few weeks, visiting more than a dozen cities to inspect the local market. We found that with the implementation of the rural contract responsibility system and the smooth implementation of urban reform, the people's pockets are becoming more and more bulging, and the demand for household appliances is increasing day by day.
In Pujiang City, we saw that the washing machines in the shopping mall would be sold out as soon as they were on the market, and even the machines that failed during the test were bought. Customers told us that the broken machine can be repaired and reused after being bought, and if it is not bought, it will take several months to wait for it to be on the market.
As a result, we saw a huge business opportunity to enter the washing machine market and achieve the most complete strategic transformation in the history of Qingfeng Agricultural Machinery Factory. ”
Wei Baolin waved his hand vigorously in the air, imagining that the attendees below would applaud enthusiastically for a long time to celebrate the imminent rebirth of the Blue Point Factory. However, the scenario he expected did not appear, except for Zhai Jianguo and several other middle-level cadres who clapped their hands a few times, Xiang Jiyong and a large group of people all gave indifferent reactions, as if Wei Baolin was talking about something that had nothing to do with everyone.
"Lao Xiang, what do you think of this plan of the factory?" Wei Baolin could only name him, and his first target was to point to Xiang Jiyong, the production section chief.
Xiang Jiyong stood up and said, "Director Wei is far-sighted and strategic, and the direction he chose is naturally very correct. I am the head of the production section, and I am concerned about whether our factory can produce washing machines. ”
The first half of his remarks praised Wei Baolin, but everyone could hear the irony. In the second half of the sentence, it is directly Wei Baolin's army, the washing machine is a good product, but can the agricultural machinery factory make a washing machine?
Regarding Xiang Jiyong's question, Wei Baolin had been prepared for a long time. He chose Ji Yong to come out and speak, also to draw out his own plan. Xiang Jiyong has some prestige in the factory, and everyone knows that this person is rigorous and trustworthy. If Xiang Jiyong can be convinced, then Wei Baolin's plan to switch to washing machines can reduce a lot of resistance.
"Old Xiang, I knew you would ask this question." Wei Baolin said proudly, he pointed at Zhai Jianguo, and said, "Xiao Zhai, you can introduce what we have learned to Section Chief Xiang." As soon as Section Chief Xiang heard it, he could understand that we were not just talking on paper, let alone drawing bread to satisfy hunger, but had been fully scientifically demonstrated. ”
"Okay." Zhai Jianguo stood up, spread out a notebook, and began to tell everyone:
"Comrades, you have not been deeply involved in the field of washing machines, and there may still be some mystery about washing machines. In fact, the washing machine is a very simple household appliance, and its structure and technical requirements are even far lower than the water pumps, rice transplanters and other machinery we have produced in the past.
In order to understand the production technology of washing machines, Director Wei led our research team to the Pearl River Delta region and visited some township enterprises that produce washing machines. As you can hear clearly, it is a township enterprise, and it is a small township enterprise with only a dozen or dozens of people.
In those companies, we saw with our own eyes how washing machines were made from the most humble production lines. The financial strength, technical level and quality of workers of our Qingfeng factory are 100 times stronger than those of these township enterprises. ”
"But how high can they produce? Can it meet the requirements of large-scale production? Xiang Jiyong is not a rookie, he still knows a little about production, he immediately asked rhetorically.
Zhai Jianguo said: "Of course, they can't meet the requirements of large-scale production, and this is precisely our strength." What Director Wei means is that we should strive for bank loans, build two fully automatic production lines, produce brand-name washing machines, occupy the market, and squeeze out the products produced by those small township factories from the market. ”
"It's not easy to get a bank loan, and now we ask our father to sue my grandmother when we borrow money from the bank to pay our salaries, let alone borrow money to invest." Yu Yongping, deputy chief of the finance department, reminded. This kind of thing will definitely fall on the head of the finance department in the end, and he must first say the ugly things in advance, otherwise if the loan cannot be paid in the future, Wei Baolin will take them to ask the teacher.
Wei Baolin waved his hand and said with a full spirit: "You don't have to worry about this matter. After today's meeting, the factory will summarize everyone's opinions and form a plan to submit to the county. The county magistrate Guo Ming was very supportive of our plan and was ready to go to the city to fight for us. If the city can support us, then loans will not be a problem. ”