It was snowing again, and there was a layer of ice flowers on the window, Mu Lianheng stood in front of the window with a cup of hot coffee, and drew a grimace on the glass with his fingers.

There was enough heating in the office, Mu Lianheng only wore a shirt, and jumped from the senior assistant to the president of Xuanwu Group to the executive vice president of Hongqi Steel.

The office used by Mr. Mu is the office of the retired old secretary of the original factory, the tables and chairs are all old goods from the nineties, and the administrative department is ready to replace a full set of new ones, but Mu Lianheng refused, and he also ordered that no new office equipment be added, and set an example, except for a notebook and a pot of daffodils, the office furnishings have not changed.

There was a soft knock on the door, and three young people walked in, they were the cadres personally selected by Mu Lianheng, administrative assistants, financial assistants, and personnel assistants, all of whom were twenty-six or seventeen years old, full of vigor and daring.

"How are the workers?" Mu Lianheng asked as he took a sip of coffee.

The administrative assistant said: "After the closure of the forum, the negative sentiment of the workers increased very rapidly, and the proportion of people who said strange things and confronted the leaders in person increased significantly, and the volume of mobile phone text messages within the group suddenly increased, and I speculated that they used text messages to connect ...... Mr. Mu, I have some ideas. ”

"You say."

"I think that the internal forum of the enterprise, as a valve to vent the negative feelings of workers, still has practical significance, and I hope that Mr. Mu will consider whether it can be reopened."

"Your idea is good, but on the Internet, any negative factor can be infinitely amplified, leading to a larger scale of antipathy, so it must be turned off."

"However, I'm afraid that they will suppress it too hard and take risks and do radical things."

Mu Lianheng smiled contemptuously: "Everything is under my control"

The administrative assistant said convincingly: "I understand, Mr. Mu." ”

Mu Lianheng nodded: "How is the financial side going?" ”

"In the past few days, we basically only sleep four hours a day, racing against time to take stock of account assets, Hongqi Steel's financial situation is much better than we expected, last year's turnaround, this year to achieve a breakthrough in profits and taxes, the asset-liability ratio and bad debt ratio are within the allowable range, if you invest in capital and technology, this company may become a high-quality asset of the group." The financial assistant pushed his glasses and said seriously.

Mu Lianheng frowned: "That's not something you have to think about, what you have to do now is to withdraw the working capital as soon as possible in addition to ensuring the necessary operation, do a good job in the liquidation of fixed assets, and lay the groundwork for the next plan. After speaking, he set his eyes on the personnel assistant.

The personnel assistant took out a stack of information and said: "This is my statistics, the list of workers over 40 years old and below high school education, on the grounds of reducing staff and increasing efficiency, this group of people should be treated on the post, and the effect should be relatively ideal." ”

The administrative assistant said: "People of this age, the elderly are frail and sickly, and the children are in junior high school, and it is the time when they need money. ”

Mu Lianheng shook his head: "Now is not the time to be soft-hearted, no matter what level you consider, this group of people must be abandoned, so that according to the basic salary...... Sixty distribution, this group of people as a pilot, the next step is to clean up the middle-level cadres, just take the intermediate title and bachelor's degree as the benchmark, not enough for all the posts of this leverage. ”

There was silence for a while, and the three young assistants bowed their heads and remained silent, as if thinking about something.

Mu Lianheng sighed, patted the administrative assistant's shoulder and said: "Xiao Wang, the law of the jungle is like this, any kindness will bring disaster, have you forgotten Mr. Chen's teachings, what is the purpose of our coming to Xuanwu Group?" What are the responsibilities? ”

The three of them immediately straightened their waists: "Understood!" ”

……

The latest notice was issued, in order to save energy and reduce emissions, reduce staff and increase efficiency, the leadership of Hongqi Iron and Steel made the decision to shut down four ironmaking blast furnaces, three oxygen top blowing converters, six sintering machines, and three oxygen generators, and at the same time put 400 employees over 40 years old and below high school education on standby.

Along with the notice, there is also a description of the plant's shutdown of equipment and workers' waiting for work, saying that due to the high international iron ore prices, steel companies are facing huge losses, and they have to reduce production as a last resort, and the waiting for work is only temporary, and the factory will never push these workers to the society, but cooperate with relevant departments to set up training institutions to help them recharge and tutor, and at the same time pay 60% of their monthly wages as living expenses.

After dozens of posters were posted, the assistants hid in the factory building in panic, ready for the storm, but strangely, after such an explosive news was released, there were no workers to make trouble.

Silent, deadly silent, the workers silently walked to the bulletin board, saw their names on the waiting list, and left silently, without a word of complaint, without a single complaint, as if it were not their own name at all.

The angry chief engineer approached Mu Lianheng and asked him why he had shut down the equipment that was functioning normally.

"The equipment has been aging, can not keep up with the development of the times, can not meet the provincial party committee and provincial government advocated by the green environmental protection enterprise standards, I think the shutdown and production reduction, is conducive to the long-term development of the Hongqi factory." Mu Lianheng answered freely.

The chief engineer's temples jumped angrily: "You stop the equipment, what to do with the order, what do the workers do, don't say anything else, do you know that the factory uses blast furnace gas for heating, and in the cold winter, how do you let thousands of people in the family area spend the winter!" ”

Mu Lianheng looked calm: "The more you produce, the more you lose, I insist that it is a responsible decision to stop production, as for the heating problem for the winter, isn't there still air conditioning." ”

"To shut down the equipment, you must agree to the leadership team, and you will make this decision with whose approval you have!" The chief engineer was still furious.

Mu Lianheng sneered: "Do you still think it is a state-owned enterprise in the past, everything has to be voted on by the leadership team, now Hongqi Steel is a private enterprise, I am the executive vice president, I can make the decision, if you have any objections, you can appeal to the group, or resign." ”

The chief engineer turned around and walked away with a grim face.

……

In the factory dormitory, a group of men in overalls were smoking cigarettes by the flower beds, whispering something, and when they saw Wei Shumin walking from a distance in the snow, they all dropped their cigarette butts and greeted: "Mr. Wei is good." ”

Wei Shumin looked at them: "Why are they all standing here?" Don't go to work. ”

"Mr. Wei, the factory has shut down and reduced production, and we have no work to do."

"Mr. Wei, my family and I are on duty, and we can only get 600 yuan a month, how can we live."

"Mr. Wei, the Xuanwu Group is too deceitful, you have to help us get the idea."

Wei Shumin furrowed her brows: "It's so fast, let's go, go upstairs and say." ”

When I came to the house, I found that the room was as cold as an ice cellar, and the heating in the factory was originally burned with blast furnace gas, but now the blast furnace is shut down, and the heating will naturally stop.

The workers cursed again.

Wei Shumin said: "Comrades, don't be impatient, the current situation is very critical, the Xuanwu Group shutting down the blast furnace is only the first step, and then they will have more insidious tricks, if I guess correctly, their purpose is to bankrupt our Hongqi factory in the shortest possible time." ”

Employees asked, "Why is that?" Isn't our factory profitable? ”

"The profitability of steel mills is much, much worse than that of real estate." Wei Shumin took out a map and spread it out on the table, and pointed: "You see, here, here, are all the land bought by Xuanwu Group, which can be connected with the Hongqi Factory, our factory used to be a remote area, but now it is a sought-after Linjiang location, which is the reason why Xuanwu Group is eager to acquire Hongqi Factory, their purpose is not our factory, but the land!" ”

The workers looked at each other, and someone asked: "What is the matter with the construction of a new factory in Nantai County?" ”

Wei Shumin said: "I have carried out a lot of investigation work during this time, Nantai County Industrial Park only exists on the blueprint, building a steel plant than building a residential community takes much more time, energy, and cost, not to mention a three-year cycle, do you think, Xuanwu Group can wait for three years?" ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, and a middle-level cadre asked: "Mr. Wei, according to what you say, the next step is to shut down the whole factory and force us to relocate?" ”

Wei Shumin said: "Why don't you understand that there will be no new factories, all they want is this land, that's all." ”

"Mr. Wei, what should we do then?" The employees were terrified and looked at Wei Shumin nervously.

"Unite and persist in the struggle, the Hongqi Factory is our 5,000 Hongqi people, not the Xuanwu Group and a few ** elements, everyone must recognize this."

The director of several branch factories and the director of the workshop said nonchalantly: "Mr. Wei, you lead us to do it, the Xuanwu Group of the dog day cut off our way of life and fight with them!" ”

The workers also shouted: "Strike! Petition! ”

Wei Shumin said: "Calm down, everyone must be calm, the strike is in their hands, petitioning can not solve the problem, can only intensify the problem, now what we have to do is to organize production, prove the value of the existence of the Hongqi Factory, on the other hand, through the normal channels to reflect, seek the support of the superior leadership department, so that the Xuanwu Group completely withdraw from the Hongqi Iron and Steel Plant." ”

"Mr. Wei, we listen to you, you give instructions!"

……

The snow outside was heavier, the north wind was howling, but the hearts of the employees who were holding a meeting at Mr. Wei's house were as hot as a furnace.

[Dedication]