Chapter 84 Summary of Development

Now the popularity of Yaogang is very strong, and when the people eat the most concentrated every day, there are two large restaurants that are full. The food is also good, in order to take care of the different tastes of people in the north and south, the staple and non-staple foods, there are both tastes in the north and the south.

Zhang Zhimu felt that he should have a meeting and summarized it. First of all, a small meeting of the cadres was held, and everyone communicated first. At the meeting, Zhang Zhimu introduced the goals of the next step of development, and the cadres also put forward their own opinions, and Zhang Zhimu also wrote them down carefully. He very much wanted everyone to give their opinions. "Now, everyone is able to carry out the work I have set out seriously, but I would like you to come up with your own ideas, so that even if I have something I don't think of for a while, people can remind me." Because more people have more eyes, we can see more clearly, we can make fewer mistakes and take fewer detours. Today, I would like to raise any questions and things I don't understand. After being silent for a while, Liu Yun asked: "Mr. Zhang, you gave the musket and ** to King Zhou, don't you worry that they will make it yourself after they master it, once we have any conflict with them in the future, will we suffer?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Liu Yun asked this question very well. As you may have noticed, I have asked Li Yunhe to stop making this musket, and in the future, this gun will be a toy for hunting when everyone has nothing to do. When we make better steel, we'll make real rifles, and then we'll have guns that shoot more accurately, have a longer range, and can be fed continuously. So let them copy these guns. There is another big reason for my support for King Zhou, that is, to curb the pace of Li Zicheng's march, from a close point of view, to keep Kaifeng, isn't it to protect our trade routes? Liu Yun made a start, and everyone raised a lot of various questions, and the atmosphere was warm. Some things Zhang Zhimu answered personally, and some others answered.

Lu Bingyi, Liu Banzhu (Liu Benchang), Zhang Bingchen, Liu Bensheng, and Li Dong attended such a meeting for the first time, and they felt that this kind of very democratic meeting was very fresh and refreshing. Although none of them prepared or spoke, their emotions changed with all kinds of questions, and their faces were slightly red with excitement.

After discussion, several important matters were decided. The advantage of this kind of meeting is that it can brainstorm and complement each other, making decisions more reasonable.

After the cadre meeting, everyone held a plenary meeting to prepare for the company. This time, a cadre on duty was left at Lingshui Wharf, and the other cadres all arrived at the kiln gang, and three people also came over from the ash kiln.

The meeting was held in the courtyard, and the whole courtyard was full.

On the first stage sat Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Huang Yukun, Yan Boju, Lu Chengxiang, Lu Bingyi, and the meeting was presided over by Li Zhi.

This time, Li Zhi arranged two drummers in front of the stage, and waited for Zhang Zhimu to signal, when the meeting could begin. Li Zhi signaled to the two drummers, and the two drummers began to beat the drums, and the drumming stopped abruptly from slow to urgent. At this time, the original humming sound in the courtyard was gone.

Li Zhi stood up and announced loudly: "I announce that the second plenary meeting of the Yaogang Commercial Corporation has begun. Now I invite our general manager Zhang Zhimu to speak, and everyone applauds and welcomes. There was a round of applause. Those who attended the meeting for the first time had never applauded before, but when they saw that everyone applauded, they also joined in.

This time, Zhang Zhimu made preparations and wrote a speech. This also makes everyone pay more attention to this meeting. The workers sat down and felt that they were very dignified, and they had never been allowed to enter such a solemn occasion before, but this time they attended the meeting with great dignity, and one by one they straightened up.

Zhang Zhimu began to say: "Fathers and elders of the kiln, brothers and sisters. I'm glad we all have a meeting together. During this time, after everyone's hard work day and night, we have our own new house, new workshop, new chemical furnace, and our cylinder kiln was quickly repaired. We also fired cement and rolled steel bars. I would like to express my gratitude to the employees for their hard work. As he spoke, Zhang Zhimu bowed to the employees in the audience, and the employees responded with a warm applause.

As soon as the applause stopped, Zhang Zhimu continued: "It is said that only by living in peace can we be happy." Now that we have a place to live, we can live in peace. I also want to be responsible to tell you that now the kiln people just don't do anything, they all sit and eat, and for three years or more, we can't eat all the grain we have stored. Then there was another round of applause, followed by a buzz. This food is so important in everyone's hearts that many people are hungry and afraid. Zhang Zhimu also smiled, and when everyone calmed down again, he continued:

"But we're not going to do that, we have to do more. What I'm going to talk about today is in two parts. The first is a summary of the past, and the second is the goal of future development.

After we came back from killing Hukou, this trip to the south, after a lot of hardships, we have a few good brothers sacrificed on the way to the south, we Yaogang people will not forget them, we are ready to build a cemetery for the martyrs who died on the east mountain, and someone will keep a vigil for them day and night. Our company has made an important decision that from now on, every year during the Qingming Festival, we will go to the martyrs' cemetery to officially sweep the graves to pay tribute to these heroic souls who sacrificed for our cause. There was another burst of discussion in the audience, and they all felt that they had come to the kiln. There is so much respect for the dead here, and there is nothing to say about the living.

Zhang Zhimu continued: "Those disabled warriors, we will try our best to arrange suitable jobs for them in the kiln, if there is no ability to work, everything is taken care of by our kiln gang people, as long as he still has a breath, we kiln gang others have, there will be no shortage of them." The Ministry of Intelligence has sent people to look for the families of those martyrs, and as long as we can find them, we will receive them to the kiln post as much as possible to make proper arrangements for them, and those who do not want to come will be given some money to help arrange them. It is also necessary to visit and take care of it regularly. Let the souls of the martyrs in heaven be comforted. There was another buzz below.

"This time we went south, starting from Lingshui Wharf, the first battle was to fight the water army of King Li Zicheng, we fought the big ship with a small boat, and played the style of daring to fight and dare to fight, after getting on the big ship, we sank two big ships and several small boats, and captured three big ships and two small boats. In this way, we have our own fleet in Yaogang. There was another round of applause. I have heard some of these things before, and this time Zhang Zhimu personally said it, which made everyone believe it more and feel more proud.

"After we arrived in Tongguan, we built our own branch in Tongguan, the name is Yaogang Hotel, and everyone will have their own home in Tongguan in the future.

Leaving Tongguan, we exterminated another group of bandits; After leaving Hangu Pass, he fought another battle with King Chuang's army. In the end, we have completely opened up the ancient road from Tongguan to Shaanxi County through Hanguguan, and the connection of this trade road will not only benefit us in the future, but also benefit many people. After entering the Yellow River, we wisely crossed the pass, and fought fiercely with the Chuang Wang's naval army, and captured two large ships. Later, we sent grain to Kaifeng and relieved the siege of Kaifeng. Then we built our own branch in Xuzhou; When he arrived in Yangzhou, he built a branch. Leaving Yangzhou, we went to Jingdezhen via Zhenjiang and Nanjing, and in Jiangxi, we went to Dayu to get this very valuable raw material. After getting the information that there was rice in Fujian, we went to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and bought rice from Annam in Quanzhou. In Fujian, after careful discussion, we decided to send a caravan of our own to the sea, and now a dozen of us are traveling overseas. Then I went to Suzhou and Hangzhou to buy silk tea, and then I returned to the kiln. After this trip to the south, I gained a lot that I could not have imagined before I left the kiln. There is only one place in the south that we want to go to, but we don't have time, and that is Guangzhou, which is now the largest overseas trading port, but I must go there next time. Now we have several footholds on the trade route to the south, and we have also sent more than a dozen people overseas to open up more space for us; Our fleet now has five large ships and four small boats, and we essentially manage the Lingshui Pier, with our own entrances and exits; We also procured a lot of raw materials for the next step of development. At the same time, it also exercised the team and opened everyone's eyes. What's even more rare is that we have also welcomed a group of outstanding technical talents and artists from the far south to come to our kiln and work together with us. So, this trip south is a milestone for us.

With such a good foundation, in the next step, our kiln will face a period of development.

First, it is necessary to develop science, technology, culture, and education. We are preparing to set up a new scientific department, which is headed by the respected Mr. Lu Bingyi, and this department is responsible for theoretical research, new technology development, cultural and educational work, and there are theoretical research departments, medical departments, art troupes, and education departments. In the future, you can also set up posts as needed. In the future, all of our employees will engage in activities to learn about culture.

In order to encourage everyone to learn culture, we divide the cultural level into the following levels: first, the primary school level; the second is the secondary school level; the third is the secondary school level; fourth, high school level; Fifth, the university level. The wages of the workers are not counted as the salary of the post and the salary of the position, and after passing the study examination, the salary will be doubled for each level of promotion. Hearing this, the following discussion is even more powerful.

Zhang Zhimu took a sip of water while everyone was discussing, and then said: "In the future, our company will implement a ten-hour work system, that is, four and a half hours in the morning and five and a half hours in the afternoon. One day off for every six days worked. If you have a night shift that needs to be reversed, schedule an eight-hour shift. In this way, everyone's work and life will be relaxed and orderly, and they will have spare time, and they will have time to study hard. Of course, we will also arrange various classes for you to teach. I have arranged for Minister Lu Bingyi to organize staff to arrange various teaching materials. When the textbooks are arranged and printed, we will send them to you according to different levels.

Our second is to develop a few major industries. One is the steel industry; the second is the cement industry; the third is aquaculture; fourth, manufacturing; fifth, the textile industry; Sixth, the cylinder kiln industry.

Our top priority is to nurture talents, and we are going to run a business workshop to nurture much-needed business talents. This class is first of all literate to a certain amount, which is the foundation, then arithmetic abacus, the second is accounting, the third is commodity knowledge, the fourth is business skills, the fifth is how to identify fakes and fraud, and of course, martial arts courses are also offered. The development of our company is based on business development, no matter what we produce in the future, it is useless to sell it without the commercial department. We pay tribute to Mr. Lu for the cause of our kiln gang to send his son and two nephews to various places thousands of miles away, especially one nephew who has now gone overseas. After speaking, Zhang Zhimu took the lead in applauding, and everyone also applauded. Lu Chengxiang also stood up to thank everyone.

Zhang Zhimu continued: "Good men are ambitious in all directions, and I hope that young people who are brave, resourceful and ambitious will actively join this team. ”

Zhang Zhimu spoke freely for a long time, and everyone below was fascinated by it. After Zhang Zhimu finished speaking, Chen Yufeng said a few words, and finally said: "I found a bad thing, we kiln people, proud is deserved, but can not go out to show off, some people are very rude to people outside, some look down on foreign people to do things and deliver goods, always talk as if they are superior, these problems do not change, people will begin to hate the people of kiln gang in the future." ”

Huang Yukun also raised a question when he spoke, saying: "I found that when some people eat in the canteen, they don't know how to cherish food, and there is waste. If you can't eat, you take a lot of it, and if you can't finish it, you throw it on the table. It's distressing to watch. I have a proposal that if I find a waste of food, I will be punished by starving for one day. Huang Yukun's words were unanimously agreed by everyone, and they all said that if you catch such a thing, you should starve for three days.

The meeting was very good, which not only encouraged those who went south together, but also spurred the new employees. Of course, the north-south dishes at the banquet in the evening made everyone even more excited.

After the meeting, Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng rewarded those who made outstanding contributions according to the situation reported below. Even Yan Boju and Lu Chengxiang were rewarded with one hundred taels of silver. Chen Yufeng said he didn't want it, but Zhang Zhimu and Huang Yukun gave two hundred taels, which Huang Yukun kept.

Seeing that everyone was there, Zhang Zhimu said: "Recently, I want to marry Huang Yukun." At this time, Huang Yukun didn't expect Zhang Zhimu to say this in front of so many people, so he was so ashamed that he hurriedly went out. When everyone saw Huang Yukun go out, they all said, "Good things and good things, hurry up." This is the first major event in our kiln. We've been waiting for a long time to drink the wedding wine." Lu Chengxiang said: "I'll come to Zhang Luo." Mr. Ouyang, who came with Lu Qi, would tell the hexagram and let him choose an auspicious day. ”

Mr. Ouyang asked Zhang Zhimu to ask about the birthdays of the two, and Zhang Zhimu asked him to wait. Because Huang Yukun was cleaning up the room on the third floor, Zhang Zhimu came to the third floor. Zhang Zhimu saw that she was still a woman with a careful heart, and Huang Yukun had already prepared a lot of things. The new wooden bed was painted brightly, and Lu Qi played it in the style of the south at this time. New bedding Huang Yukun doesn't know how many sets have been prepared. Those newly bought silks, I don't know when, have become quilts. Huang Yukun said: "Some of them were done by me, and some of them were helped by Sister-in-law Xu. Seeing that there was no one, Zhang Zhimu hugged Huang Yukun and kissed him for a while, and then had some other ideas. Huang Yukun quit. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to ask: "I can't tell Mr. Zhu about my eight characters?" Huang Yukun said: "Just push forward 30 years when you found you and tell him." ”

As a result, Mr. Zhu calculated: "There are ten more days to be an auspicious day for the zodiac, and the two of them are in harmony." Lu Chengxiang said that then we have to hurry up and prepare. didn't think that Zhang Zhimu's marriage had not yet been accepted, and there was another thing that made him cry and laugh.