On the third day of coming to Chuncheng, Huang Lao and his entourage, accompanied by relevant personnel of the local government, went to Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, the most well-known iron and steel enterprise in northern Liaoning Province.

As the earliest iron and steel enterprise in China's domestic history, Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant has a very important position in the domestic steel industry, and the annual production capacity of this plant has been as high as 3 million tons during the period when the Japanese were still raging in China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after the strong support of the state and the continuous renovation of technical equipment, after entering the 90s, Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant has become a super-large iron and steel enterprise with an annual output of more than 9 million tons.

Iron and steel enterprises are a heavy industry with high energy consumption and high pollution, and such factories cannot be built relatively close to urban areas. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and his entourage drove to the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, and under the guidance of the local government police car Chang Ming, it took more than an hour to arrive at the destination.

Huang Lao stood outside the majestic steel gate of the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant with the support of Chen Youwei and others, looking at the scene of lion dances and firecrackers, and even countless primary school students holding flowers and cheering for the grand scene, his face showed obvious displeasure.

"Elder Huang, let's go in first, these ordinary people who have been preparing for many days are really heartfelt for your arrival!" Chen Youwei next to him immediately guessed Huang Lao's thoughts, and whispered comfortingly.

"Humph!"

Huang Laoqiang squeezed out a smile and waved at the workers waving small colored flags on both sides of the road.

"Welcome to Huang Lao, Huang Lao has been tired all the way, why don't you rest for a while?" The person in charge of Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant's hair is shiny, and he is full of foreign style in a suit and leather shoes, not to mention the old Huang who has a pimple in his heart, even Chen Youwei looks unpleasant.

Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant is a large state-owned enterprise directly under the Ministry of Industry in terms of ownership, and with the importance of steel in China at present, Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant has a transcendent position in Liaobei Province and even the entire Northeast.

The leaders of the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant are all at the ministerial level, although they are generally appointed directly by the Government Council. However, those who are familiar with China's national conditions know that in such a highly professional field as the iron and steel plant, most of the people who can serve as Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant are still produced from within Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant.

Huang Lao looked at the person in charge who was not wearing the work clothes he should have in his factory, and the evil feeling in his heart became even stronger, and he rolled his eyelids and said mercilessly: "I'm not old enough yet, am I?" Let's go straight to the production floor! ”

The old man in charge blushed, and in the face of Huang Lao's unreluctance, he was completely speechless, and he didn't know how he offended the other party.

If the leader of the Government Council came down to inspect it, and in this case, the person in charge of the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, whose eyes were on the top of his head, would probably just walk away. But in the face of Huang Lao, an old qualification who is not light in the Central Advisory Committee, and can be called the founder of New China Oriental Iron and Steel Plant, this person in charge really does not have the guts.

As a large-scale iron and steel enterprise with a high output in China, Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant has a history that should not be underestimated for many years. Chen Youwei can clearly observe in the factory area, although some equipment companies have obvious rust spots, but the efficiency of factory operation is still not low.

"I haven't been here for some years, and this factory is bigger and more beautiful than when it was just liberated!"

The busy scene of the production plant swept away Huang Lao's previous irritable mood, looking at the vehicles coming and going and the sound of steam emitting violently from time to time on the side of the blast furnace in the distance, Huang Lao was obviously very satisfied with what he saw in front of him.

"Huang Lao, if you have time, please come here a few more times to give us good guidance!" The person in charge of the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant seized the opportunity and said with a smile.

"Xiaohu, you are not good at this, I remember when you were still a technician in the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, where was there so much nonsense!" Huang Lao finally remembered the name of the person in charge of the face in front of him, shook his head and said lightly.

"Old Huang still remembers me?" The person in charge surnamed Hu was pleasantly surprised.

"Hmm...... I remember that you were one of the first engineers that Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant trained itself, right? The uneasiness on Huang Lao's face subsided a lot, and he pointed to the person in charge surnamed Hu with a smile and said: "At that time, you were still full of pimples, but I didn't expect you to be such a rich man now!" ”

"What Huang Lao said is that at that time, I was determined that if I couldn't complete the tasks assigned to me by the organization, I would resolutely not get married!" The person in charge surnamed Hu was excited, and he scratched his head when he talked about the past of the year.

"Hahaha, look at you like this, you should have successfully completed the task assigned to you by the organization?" Huang Lao was amused and laughed.

"Hehe, I remember that it should be the third year after you were transferred out of the Northeast, Mr. Huang, I successfully completed the task, and now the children are not young!" The person in charge surnamed Hu said happily.

After a morning in the noisy production plant, Huang Lao and his entourage were arranged by the leaders of Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant to rest in an elegant guest house some distance from the production area.

Throughout the morning's visit, Chen Youwei was very low-key by Huang Lao's side, although the leaders of the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant knew that he should also be one of the responsible persons of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, but Chen Youwei did not give them a chance to talk.

In just a few days of getting along, Chen Youwei already has an understanding of Huang Lao's temper, coupled with Huang Lao's obviously somewhat abnormal behavior at the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, Chen Youwei can basically conclude that this Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant is the target of Huang Lao's trip to the Northeast.

As an old revolutionary who accepted the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant before the founding of the People's Republic of China and spent more than three years here in the incomparably fulfilling and eventful years, Huang Lao obviously has an incomprehensible yearning and nostalgia for this place where the best times of his youth were once thrown.

Generally speaking, if you reach Huang Lao's age, you can let go of too many things, and face them with a very indifferent attitude.

However, for Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, a large state-owned enterprise that has some weight in China, and the factory that Huang Lao valued and invested the most energy in that year, if he received a large number of reports about corruption and complicity, Huang Lao must be calm, and I am afraid that he also has a feeling of being bullied by his married daughter in his heart.

Chen Youwei looked at the smiling masks surrounding Huang Lao, and sighed lightly in his heart, the other party was so strictly guarded, it was really difficult to get those real evidence from such a unit that was not low.

Perhaps because he felt that Huang Lao was dissatisfied with that kind of extravagance, the lunch at noon was arranged very simply, and the form of the buffet made Huang Lao very satisfied.

Beginning in the afternoon, the inspection work of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant officially began.

Chen Youwei noticed that when the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection took out stacks of relevant report files for sorting out and auditing, the relevant leaders of Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant who accompanied him had very calm expressions on their faces.

It seems that the other party has been prepared for a long time, Chen Youwei secretly speculated that if he only started from the outside, I am afraid that it would be useless to find out the bottom of this place.

Chen Youwei took out a cigarette and lit it, stood by the windowsill, looked at the tall production blast furnace in the distance, and thought quietly, if there is the assistance of the internal personnel of the Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, then it can be the most fast and efficient to uncover the black curtain here.

As for whether there is corruption in Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, in Chen Youwei's view, it is simply an unquestionable thing.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be extremely complex entanglements of interests.

Since the day it was born, state-owned enterprises have consciously or unconsciously had too many conflicts of interest because they have mastered a large amount of resources. The first 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China were better, when the overall environment was a strict crackdown on corruption, under normal circumstances, a small amount of interest embezzlement may still exist, but there are still very few bold and reckless corrupt behaviors.

The real emergence of a large number of job-related crimes, including state-owned enterprises, was more likely to occur after the reform and opening up, when the simple thinking of the past was corroded by the idea of the supremacy of money, and then it began to appear in the trend of flooding across the country.

Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, a super-large enterprise with an annual output of 9 million tons of steel, carries out unimaginable capital flows every day, and it is easy to make some moves in such a closed kingdom with huge benefits.

Chen Youwei is now thinking more about what kind of turbulent waves he will face if a large state-owned enterprise like Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant is found to have problems this time.

Before the accident of the Cheng family and the Zhou family, Zhou Dongfang's gentlemen in the capital had thought about the Beidu Iron and Steel Plant not far from the capital many times. It is said that these bold people took advantage of the tight domestic steel supply environment at that time to mobilize as many as tens of thousands of tons of steel from the empty glove white wolf of the Beidu Iron and Steel Plant.

Although after the accident of the Cheng family and the Zhou family, this incident was also grabbed and became one of the evidences of their crimes, but when I think of the leaders of the Beidu Iron and Steel Plant, they are all ministerial-level, but it is Zhou Dongfang These people, the complicated people of the Beidu Iron and Steel Plant have no intention of offending the other party at all.

The scale of Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant is only a lot bigger than that of Beidu Iron and Steel Plant, and Chen Youwei can imagine that behind such a huge cake is only the audacity of the internal personnel of Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant, which must be innumerable.

Even with Huang Lao's shield in front of him, Chen Youwei could think that countless pairs of sensitive eyes would still be on the head of him, a person who seemed to be a little restless.

Chen Youwei shook his head and smiled bitterly, his actions in the early stage of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection were still an attitude of showing that the current intricate Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant was not intentionally involved.

The old man means that he wants Chen Youwei to keep a low profile, but Chen Youwei knows that whether he is willing or unwilling, active or passive, I am afraid that he will not be able to avoid the bomb that is about to detonate in Dongfang Iron and Steel Plant.

Chen Youwei snuffed out the cigarette butt, and a sharp edge flashed in his eyes.

If there are some things that can't be avoided, why think too much?!