People who have not been to the Forbidden City, most of them want to know what the emperor's place of residence is like, and when they go there one day, they see the palace tall and majestic, carved beams and paintings, and the tiger stands on the dragon plate, and the momentum is extraordinary. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info yearning, there will be action, there is action, but not all can succeed, after all, there are too many people in the world, there is only one emperor lucky.

Out of the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City, there is a mountain behind it, which is the famous Jingshan. There is a small road at the foot of the mountain, turn right and walk a short distance, there is a crooked neck tree on the east side of Jingshan, people who know the history of this tree will know that it is the place where the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen hanged himself, standing under the tree and looking up, some people will have a sigh, think that it is not much fun to be the emperor, either die of conspiracy, or die of war, it is not as good as the people of Pingtou, where it is comfortable, just lie down to bask in the sun.

Whether you choose to be an emperor or choose to bask in the sun depends on a person's attitude towards entering and leaving the world. In the end, which one is more suitable for you, throughout the ages, it can be said that the benevolent and the wise see the wise. The former will laugh at the latter because they can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, which is a contemptible act of escaping and abandoning the world; The latter will say that the former is the "scorpion" in Liu Zongyuan's pen who does not know whether to live or die, working hard and sad in the limited time, doing ridiculous and pathetic things.

Although the position of the general manager of Jiaxin Salinization Company is not as beautiful as that of the emperor, there are not a few people who covet this position on the territory of Jiaxin Salinization Company. Where there is so-called human existence, there will be calculations, and where there is power, there will be struggle. Ning Qianqian suddenly ascended to the throne of general manager, and life was not peaceful.

That was three months after Ning Xiangqian became the general manager of Schwab.

One morning, as usual, Ning Xiangqian arrived at the company early, and since he became the general manager, he went to work two hours earlier than before every day. After arriving at the company, according to the newly developed habit, he would first go to the branches to take a walk to familiarize himself with the production and operation of each secondary unit in the past day. When he came to the packaging workshop of the salt branch, he saw that there were many more salt stacks in the warehouse than the previous day, and the indoor warehouse and the outdoor warehouse were full of salt. Ning Xiangqian's heart felt strange, could it be that there was a problem with the company's recent sales?

Confused, Ning Qian turned to the front of the office building of the distribution center. On that day, the cadre on duty at the distribution center was Wang Bashi, who was the current director of the distribution center and the only fellow of Ning Xiangqian in the same village and group in Jiaxin. Seeing Ning Qian coming forward, Wang Bashi stepped forward early to greet him.

Wang Bashi's "shi" was originally not pronounced "Shi", but should have been pronounced "Dan". There is an allusion to the origin of this name.

It is said that on the afternoon of Wang Bashi's birth, Wang Bashi's father was measuring the wheat harvested that year on his own field. The locals have an old habit of using the traditional "stone" (Dan) as the unit of measurement, one stone is one hundred catties, and after the wheat is weighed, it is calculated, and each mu is exactly eight stones. Wang Bashi's father told the good news to Wang Bashi's grandfather who was sitting at the gate of the yard basking in the sun.

Just in the old man's mouth, he kept chanting, "Eight stones! Eight stones! At that time, Comrade Wang Bashi was born. Wang Bashi's grandmother ran to the gate of the courtyard and said to the old man: "The child is his father, and the daughter-in-law has given birth!" It's a big fat boy, hurry up and give it a name! ”

Wang Bashi's grandfather was still immersed in the joy of Bashi wheat at that time, and he still couldn't change his mouth after listening to his wife's good news, and he was still muttering "Bashi!" Eight stones! When Wang Bashi's grandmother heard this, she was stunned and asked Wang Bashi's grandfather: "Our family name is Wang, and our grandson's name is Bashi, is this appropriate?" ”

Wang Bashi's grandfather glared at him and said, "What's inappropriate!" This year's year is good, eight stones of wheat have been harvested per acre, and a big grandson has been harvested, God blesses our Wang family! ”

Wang Bashi's grandfather has a special authority in the family, and what he says, the family can't deny it casually, and the name Wang Bashi is retained. When Wang Bashi reached the age of going to school, trouble came, and a week after the start of school, Wang Bashi refused to go to school at home! His grandfather called him to him and asked him, "Good grandson, why don't you go to school?" ”

Wang Bashi replied: "My classmates all laughed at my name and called me a bastard!" ”

Grandpa said, "They're right!" Your name was originally Wang Bashi! ”

Wang Bashi pouted and said, "I don't want to be a bastard!" ”

Grandpa heard this, and said with a smile: "The name was set by the ancestors, whether you want it or not, you are Wang Bashi!" ”

Wang Bashi cried with a sad face, and muttered in a low voice: "What name is not good, I choose this bad name, so that my classmates laugh at me!" ”

"Good grandson, the name is just a title." Grandpa coaxed him and said: "Grandpa told you that in ancient times, there was a famous figure, people called him Zhou Gong, Zhou Gong's father is the famous King Wen of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the elder brother of Zhou Gong is King Wu of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in fact, they are not surnamed Zhou, but surnamed Ji." This Zhou Gong's name is only one word, called Dan, surnamed Ji Mingdan, doesn't it sound like an egg together? In the Tang Dynasty, there was also an emperor with the surname Li Mingdan. Such two famous characters, they don't think that their names have a 'Dan' on their names to be ashamed, and they have never heard of anyone laughing at them, who wants to change their names, you see how good their fate is! Although your word 'stone' is different from theirs' word 'dan', the homonym is very similar, and maybe you will have the same blessings as them in the future! So, don't be afraid of ignorant people laughing at you, you should be proud that you have the same name as the emperor. ”

"I don't believe it! Grandpa, you're lying to me again! Wang Bashi couldn't get up on the ground: "If you don't change my name, I will never go to school!" ”

"Good grandson, the name can never be changed!" Seeing this, Grandpa straightened his face and said, "From the day the name is named, the ancestors have a record, once the name is changed, the souls of the ancestors will not be able to shelter you." Otherwise, you can see if it will work, Wang Bashi's stone (Dan) character is a polyphonic word, which can be read as 石 (Shi), or we will call you Wang Bashi in the future! ”

Grandpa's face made Wang Bashi a little afraid, and the matter of changing his name came to an end. Wang Bashi is Wang Bashi, his humble identity is destined to make him unable to become Ji Dan and Li Dan, after graduating from junior high school, he has no school to go to. There is no hope in academics, so go out and become a soldier! In the melting pot of the army, this kid was not trained into any good steel, he ate dry food for three years in vain, where did he come from, and where did he go back, in the second year after he was discharged from the army, the family entrusted someone to find a relationship for him and arranged it in Jiaxin Company in H City. The relationship is not very hard, and he can only be a small worker in the company, and the life of the army has made him more sleek, flattering and flattering, and he has been unknown in this position for many years, until Ning Xiangqian became the general manager of Jiaxin Company, and his official fortune began to prosper.

Wang Bashi and Ning Xiangqian are from the same place, and the two of them are in the same village and group. The surname Wang is a big surname in the village, and the surname Ning is a small surname, and the surname Ning is often excluded and bullied by the surname Wang. Wang Bashi's parents heard that Ning Xiangqian had become the leader of Jiaxin Company, and they looked at the thatched house, grinding hard bubbles, tears and begging in every way, Ning Xiangqian's parents were relieved, and let their son reward Wang Bashi as an official, and the parents' order was difficult to disobey, Ning Xiangqian was a filial son, and despite the discussion of the people in the company, Wang Bashi was promoted to be the director of the distribution center. The director of the distribution center belongs to the department level, and the manager of each branch of Jiaxin Company is at the same level, and Wang Bashi has finally stepped into the ranks of the annual salary system.

Seeing Ning Xiangqian walking towards his small building, Wang Bashi hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face, asked General Manager Ning how he was, and the two of them walked into the office one after the other. Ning Xiangqian asked Wang Bashi to bring this week's delivery log, sat on the sofa and looked through them one by one, looking at it, Ning Xiangqian's brows were twisted into a pimple, and he found that he had hardly sent the goods from the sales company's southern marketing department this week. When Lu Zifei was the department manager of the Southern Marketing Department, the annual salt sales volume can be said to occupy half of the sales company, after Lu Zifei was seconded to the Provincial Salt Industry Company, the position of the manager of the Southern Market Department was vacant, Wu Youwei recommended his brother-in-law to Ning Xiangqian, Ning Xiangqian was a new official at that time to seek stability, and there was no objection. Could it be that as the world says, as soon as people leave, the tea will be cold, and if Lu Zifei is replaced, the salt sales market of the Southern Marketing Department will not work?

Ning Xiangqian returned to his office, sat and stayed for a while, seeing that the big clock on the wall had passed the time to go to work, he picked up his mobile phone and dialed Wu Youwei's number, asking him to come to his office immediately. After waiting for nearly half an hour, Wu Youwei appeared in front of his office, and this guy didn't knock on the door, just unscrewed the handle and came in.

"Deputy General Manager Wu, how is the company's sales recently?" For Wu Youwei's inferiority, Ning Xiangqian had no choice, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked calmly.

"Are you asking about sales? That's great! Wu Youwei didn't wait for Ning to greet him, sat on the sofa with his butt crooked, and replied casually.

"I don't think so!" Ning Xiangqian took a breath and said, "I went to the packaging workshop just now and found that the indoor warehouse and the outdoor warehouse were full of salt, and now they have begun to pile up on the road, what's going on?" ”

"Is that the case?" Seeing that Ning Xiangqian's face was not very good, Wu Youwei straightened up and replied: "I will return to the sales company at a moment, convene the managers of the various marketing departments to ask, and ask what the situation is." ”

"No need to summon!" Ning Xiangqian waved his hand at Wu Youwei and said: "Just now I looked at this week's distribution log in the distribution center, and found that the Southern Market Department has almost never sent goods in the past stage. ”

"Southern Market Department? By the way, if you don't mention it, I'll forget about it. Wu Youwei slapped his thigh, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said: "Recently, there have been some problems in the sales of the Southern Marketing Department, but there is a reason, my brother-in-law has told me a few times, and I have seen that you have been very busy in the past few days, so I didn't have time to tell you about it." ”

"Oh, what's the reason?" Ning Qianqian asked.

"You've just become a general manager, and I'm afraid you don't know much about some things." Wu Youwei cleared his throat, leaned on the sofa and said: "Since the media said that the National Development and Reform Commission is going to reform the salt industry system, thousands of domestic salt companies are actively integrating resources and seizing the market. Some of the best mine salt production enterprises in China are in S Province and H Province, you know, these companies have a longer history than our Jiaxin Company, and they are far more than our company in terms of technology and production capacity. A year ago, the production cost per ton of salt of these mine salt enterprises was between 110 yuan and 120 yuan, while our production cost per ton of salt was close to 180 yuan, a difference of nearly 60 or 70 yuan. ”

"I asked you to come because I want to talk to you about sales, not about cost." Regarding Wu Youwei's answer, Ning Xiangqian was a little impatient.

"I know what you mean, but if you want to talk about sales, you can't ignore costs, and I'll talk about sales next." Wu Youwei's heart was extremely unhappy about Ning Xiangqian's face at the moment, or the official frame, but he understood his situation, and he had to compromise if he was a subordinate: "In the past year or so, Jiaxin Company has been busy with acquisitions, there is almost no effective technological transformation, and the production cost can be said to be increasing unabated, which has brought huge pressure to our sales companyThe cost of each ton of transportation capacity is three or twenty yuan, so we can never afford to speak hard at the price. ”

After listening to Wu Youwei's explanation, Ning Xiangqian fell into deep thought, it is undeniable that Wu Youwei's words have a certain truth, the market does not believe in tears, only believes in strength, whoever has the strength can possess her. What is strength? For salt enterprises, it is a cheap and high-quality product. Compared with its counterparts outside the province, there is a gap between Jiaxin and Jiaxin, which is also a problem that has plagued Jiaxin's sales for a long time. But for the situation that Wu Youwei just said, it was a fact when General Manager Chen was in power, why did the salt become unsellable when he took office?

"Is that why you gave me the Southern Marketing Department salt sales blocked?" Ning Qianqian asked Wu Youwei.

"Aren't these reasons enough?" Wu Youwei did not shy away from Ning Qianqian's gaze, he continued: "It is not a matter of one or two days for the salt production enterprises in S Province and H Province to open the salt market in T Province. The salt of the Southern Market Department is mainly sold to several cities along the Yangtze River in the south of G Province, and the Yangtze River is a cheap golden waterway, which sends salt from S Province and H Province, and goes down the river without land transportation, and can go directly to the various terminals of the cities along the Yangtze River in G Province. ”

"That's not right! Now that we are already a family with the G Provincial Salt Company, it stands to reason that the subordinate branches of the G Provincial Salt Company have no reason to reject our salt and use salt from other provinces instead, right? Ning Xiangqian was extremely reluctant that Wu Youwei's words would come true, and he asked with some disbelief.

"The truth is this truth, but the reality is not this reality." Wu Youwei put up his old qualifications and said: "I have been dealing with the salt company for more than a day or two. Although the salt company is a policy meal, in essence, it is no different from the Schwab company, because it is also a for-profit enterprise for the purpose of making money. Administratively, it is true that each branch is subordinate to the provincial salt company, but at the same time, each branch is also under the jurisdiction of the local government where it is located. That is to say, each salt branch can have its own purchase channels and sales strategies, and have its own independent management rights. ”

"I understand what you're saying!" Ning Xiangqian interrupted Wu Youwei's following words and asked, "I want to know, in the current situation, what method do you plan to use to regain the lost market?" ”

"Price reduction!" Wu Youwei didn't think about it, and replied directly: "I have been engaged in sales for many years, and I am well versed in the characteristics of these guys in the salt company, as long as there is milk, they are willing to call their mothers." They always want to buy at the lowest price and sell the salt at the highest price. At present, the price of Jiaxin's salt sold to the salt company is two cents a catty, and the price of the salt company on the market is two yuan a catty, a tenfold increase, and the price of salt in the market in G province is the highest in the country, which has been disclosed in a well-known evening newspaper in the province not long ago, which also proves from the side how profitable and greedy these guys are in the salt company of G province! As long as we are willing to lower the price of salt, let go and fight with the major salt companies outside the province, with years of customer relations, I believe that there will be no problem in maintaining our market share. ”

"Price drop?" Ning Xiangqian frowned, this is the last word that Ning Xiangqian has ever heard since he took office, Jiaxin Company has a number of production lines, bloated personnel, low production capacity, costs and profits are close to upside down, if the existing sales price continues to reduce prices, it is bound to operate at a loss, this trick is made with expedient measures, in the long run, the company will be closed, G Province Salt Company spent a lot of money to buy Jiaxin Salt Company, the purpose is not to let itself collapse. He asked Wu Youwei: "Have you done an investigation?" How much is a ton of salt sold by salt enterprises in other provinces to the market in Province G? ”

"This is a trade secret, and it is not so easy to obtain, but according to my side inquiry, it is estimated that the price of salt in our company will be reduced to 80 to 100 yuan a ton." Wu Youwei replied.

"Eighty to a hundred?" Ning Xiangqian didn't quite believe his ears.

"Yes! This is just my conservative estimate, and it could even be higher than that. Wu Youwei said.

After being silent for a while, Ning Xiangqian waved his hand at Wu Youwei and said, "You go back first, let me think about this matter." ”

Seeing Ning Xiangqian sitting there in a daze with his head drooped and a melancholy look on his face, a smile appeared at the corner of Wu Youwei's mouth, he stood up, patted his ass exaggeratedly, and walked out of the door of the general manager's office.

Considering or not considering is actually the same, because Ning Xiangqian knows that the facts in front of him cannot be changed. General Manager Chen handed over to himself a debt-ridden mess, and Jiaxin owed more than one billion yuan in loans to the bank, and these debts were caused by the lack of foresight of the previous company leaders and the blind copying of those small production lines. The production capacity of the production line is small, but the matching engineering projects cannot be less, not to mention the unjust money spent, which also increases the company's employment costs. Compared with counterparts outside the province, the gap between Jiaxin company is indeed relatively large, especially in S province and H province, several large salt enterprises, often are million-ton production lines, they are few personnel, excellent equipment, large production capacity, high degree of automation, energy consumption per ton of salt is lower than Jiaxin salinization dozens of dollars, in the cost determines the benefit of modern enterprises, in the market environment of oversupply, the survival of vulnerable enterprises will be fatal. Although the senior management of the salt industry company in G Province intends to change the status quo of Jiaxin Company and is willing to take out money to make a big investment, they have just taken over this stall, and the project they want to launch is still in the demonstration stage, and there is still a long way to go before the specific implementation.

Unsalable like a plague, in the next few days, it is not only the problem of the southern market department that gives Ning Qianqian a headache, but also the unsalable salt in the northern market department and the eastern and western market departments. Jiaxin has a total of four production lines, with an annual output of nearly 900,000 tons of salt, if the output is averaged to every day, the daily output of salt is nearly 2,500 tons, and the daily output of 20 bales per ton is 50,000 bales a day. Rows of neat and orderly salt stacks, like insatiable dragons, are getting longer and bigger every day, and little by little they are eating away at the only few vacant land of Jiaxin Salinization Company. The length of the salt dragon has a new breakthrough every day, from the production area, the yard to the office area, from the office area, the yard to the living area, on the road, on the field, on the lawn, all the places that can be used to code salt, are stacked with salt, the whole Jiaxin company is everywhere is a white expanse, becoming a veritable world of salt.

The senior management of Schwab held daily meetings to study countermeasures, but the results of the daily meetings did not discuss any feasible solutions. The first thing the five Standing Committee members do when they go to work is to gather in the conference room, and everyone gathers around a round table, either looking at each other or swallowing clouds, and no one speaks when it is time to speak, which is a kind of sadness at the meeting. When Ning Qianqian looked at everyone with blank eyes, broke the silence again and again, made a bitter face, and asked everyone for a solution in an almost pleading tone, the high-level leaders attending the meeting were willing to speak. But when everyone talks about it, they don't seem to have anything new, and most of them are repeating the old words they said the day before.

Every time General Manager Ning throws bricks and leads the way, Secretary Kan is always the next to speak. Secretary Kan has not been in the company for a long time, but he already has his own nickname in the company, and the employees call him "Secretary Kan" in private. "Kan" secretary can indeed Kan, every time he speaks at a meeting, he will analyze the current situation faced by Jiaxin Salinization from the perspective of political work, this time is no exception, but Secretary Kan's tone has been more optimistic, he has always emphasized that the difficulties encountered in front of the enterprise are temporary, and the future prospects of the enterprise are bright, as long as everyone here can establish confidence and carry forward the spirit of overcoming difficulties, it will be bright and invincible.

Kan secretary also believes that the company's primary task is to do a good job of unity, a chopstick is easy to break, ten chopsticks are as strong as iron, unity is the cornerstone of overcoming all difficulties, unity is the magic weapon to win the cause of Jiaxin salinization, not only to unite the party members around them, but also to unite the masses around, to let everyone think in one place, to make one place, closely united around the company's leadership team, only in this way, the prospect of Jiaxin Salinization Company can be bright. In Secretary Kan's impassioned speech, some novel words will emerge from time to time, such as advancing with the times, taking a long-term view, scientific development, judging the time and sizing up the situation, and so on, all of which have a distinct mark of the times.

There are always more ways than difficulties, and this is also a sentence that Secretary Kan often says. For the practical problems faced by Jiaxin, after a few days of meetings, although Secretary Kan did not give a clear and operable solution, his speech was still relatively positive. There is no strategy to open up sales, and this is also to blame Secretary Kan, because Secretary Kan has always believed that he is engaged in political work, in the division of labor of several people in the party committee, he is mainly responsible for party building and ideological education, and his duty is to arm everyone's minds with advanced ideological and theoretical weapons.

Secretary Kan said that the following is generally the chairman of the trade union to speak, because the chairman of the trade union always sits at the head of Secretary Kan, and according to the order, it should be his turn to speak. The chairman of the trade union, surnamed Ma, is also the secretary of the discipline inspection of Jiaxin Company, and he, like Secretary Kan, was transferred from the Provincial Salt Industry Company together when the high-level blood change of Jiaxin Company. It is said that when he was in the Provincial Salt Industry Company, he was an officer of the Security Section, and because he had a good relationship with a vice president of the Provincial Salt Industry Company, some people said that he was a relative of the vice president's family, and few people in the company knew what his specific background was. From an inaccessible figure in the Provincial Salt Industry Company to a senior executive of the Jiaxin Salt Chemical Company, the sparrow has become a phoenix, and this alone can prove the strength of Chairman Ma's backer.

It is said that the chairman of the trade union is an idle position, drinking tea and reading the newspaper nonsense, but after Chairman Ma arrived at Jiaxin Salinization Company, he did a practical thing for Jiaxin Company, that is, to build a new "home for workers" with a reputation in the province. Jiaxin Company became a subordinate of the Provincial Salt Industry Company, but the employees did not have a free leisure world in their spare time, as the chairman of the trade union, which made him feel very uncomfortable. He first made suggestions to General Manager Ning, and took the initiative to invite Ying to the Provincial Salt Industry Company to carry out activities, and also to the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to lobby, the "Workers' Home" project was quickly approved, with a total of more than 3 million project funds. Of the more than 3 million yuan of the project money, more than 2 million yuan was used to build a house, and more than 1 million yuan was used for the purchase of venue facilities and sports equipment. After the "Workers' Home" was built, the city, provincial, and state federations of trade unions donated tens of thousands of books, including both technical and literary books.

With so much sports equipment and so many books, the spare time life of the workers of the Jiaxin Salinization Company should be rich, but in fact it seems that this is not the case, and it is rare to see workers go to the workers' homes to exercise and borrow books. Workers are not allowed to read books when they go to work, otherwise they will be considered to have violated rules and disciplines; Workers can't even exercise when they go to work, because they risk leaving their jobs. The salary is already pitiful, wouldn't it be unjust to deduct money for this kind of thing? Besides, the problem of food and clothing for some workers' brothers has not yet been solved, so where can they have the leisure to go to the workers' homes for recreation?

The inauguration of the workers' home was not entirely useless, it provided a shelter for the annual salaried guys in the office office. After lunch, there is more than an hour of free time, everyone meets in twos and threes to play cards inside, go to the treadmill to run a run, it is really a very pleasant thing. Every morning, he would find someone to go inside to practice table tennis, and after practicing a stinky sweat, he would take a shower in the shower room, and when it was time for lunch, he would go to a tavern outside the company to have a few drinks. Chairman Ma likes to drink, probably because his wife and children live in the provincial capital, and he is too lonely to live in H City, in the company, unless he can see his person in the workers' home in the morning, it is rare to see him in the afternoon. At noon, there is a party in the company, he will follow to drink the entertainment wine, if there is no entertainment, then he slips alone, and there are business entertainment expenses and union fees in the horizontal and vertical trade unions, and he can be reimbursed for any reason.

Fathers and mothers are not as good as wine, and a good wife and concubine are not as good as wine. Seeing that the wine can't walk, if there is wine, you will have fun, which is a portrayal of Chairman Ma's life. Ordinary people drink high, will play drunk, or nonsense, Chairman Ma is not such a person, after he has drunk, he always quietly locks himself in the office to sleep, there is no bed in the office, only a couch, Chairman Ma has overslept several times, missed the company's shuttle back to the city, but this is nothing, after all, staying in the office is a person, back home is also a person. What he was most worried about was that he had drunk too much wine several times, and he rolled from the sofa to the floor, and he didn't wake up until midnight by the freezing of the floor tiles, and when he woke up, he was trembling, no one cared about, no one took care of him, he was alone, extremely desolate, and what was even more infuriating was that he had to ask for leave to go back to the city to hang the needle the next day.

In recent days, in order to sell salt, the company's senior management has held meetings every day, in the morning and in the afternoon. A drunkard who doesn't drink alcohol is like a smoker who doesn't smoke, and every afternoon, Chairman Ma can't keep up his spirits. Sitting at the conference table, either scolding, or stretching, to Chairman Ma to think of a way to sell salt, it is really a little difficult for him, but as a senior management of the company, when the company encounters difficulties, remain silent, obviously can not live their monthly salary, Chairman Ma was aggrieved for a long time, and finally came up with a few words of prevarication, he suggested that the company should pay attention to tapping the potential of the working class, if the leadership agrees, he will send a document to the secondary trade unions, brainstorming, collective wisdom, to see if there is a good way for the worker brothers.

Among the five Standing Committee members, the most sad is Deputy General Manager Zhuang Laifu. Every time I have a meeting in the past few days, I will see him frowning and worried. Deputy General Manager Zhuang was not born with this face, because his nickname is the Smiling Tiger, not the unlucky ghost. The fickleness of Deputy General Manager Zhuang's face can be comparable to that of a chameleon, as early as when General Manager Chen was on stage, he had a superb performance, and when General Manager Chen was happy, his face was like a blooming flower; When General Manager Chen is worried, his expression will be like a dead mother. Now that General Manager Ning has come to power, Deputy General Manager Zhuang's acting skills should be more perfect, no matter what he really thinks in his heart, it is always not wrong to be consistent with the leader in facial expressions, and he can directly make the leader feel that he is related to him, sharing honor and disgrace.

Deputy General Manager Zhuang has always focused on production, and he has no good strategy for sales. However, in order to show his loyalty, he still carefully proposed a way to alleviate the current crisis, which was to stop production. His reasoning is that if the company does not stop production, it will have to requisition land from the surrounding villagers to stock up on salt in a week.

Ning Xiangqian had already considered Zhuang Laifu's proposal, but he had been frustrated that he couldn't find a suitable excuse. There must be an excuse for stopping production, otherwise there will be no way to deal with the top, and there will be no explanation for the bottom. You listen to the production, there must be an explanation from the provincial salt company, right? The workers also need to explain the situation, right? Why was it discontinued? Overhaul is a good excuse, but two months ago the company just carried out a repair, the provincial salt company also knew about this situation, such a short time and stopped maintenance, is the interval shorter? If you tell the truth to the workers, the company's salt sales are not moving, and production must be stopped, what kind of eyes will the workers of Jiaxin Salinization Company use to see themselves? Oh, when General Manager Chen was on stage, everything was running normally, and if you replaced you, you would rather move forward, and the company immediately turned off the fire, is it a shame?

At the conference table, Wu Youwei was the most leisurely person among the several Standing Committee members. The answer to this can be found not only from his facial expressions, but also from his high erected legs. When it was his turn to speak, he didn't add anything other than repeating the two words he had said to Ning Xiangqian again and again—price reductions. For the benefits of price reduction, Wu Youwei explained it like this: price reduction is a stepping stone to win the market, price reduction can maintain the orderly operation of the company, price reduction can eliminate the growing panic of employees, price reduction can regain the company's original market share, price reduction can make the salt stack poking in everyone's eyes disappear quickly.

The price reduction can make Schwab close its doors early! Listening to Wu Youwei's talk, Ning Xiangqian scolded indignantly in his heart. I don't know why, in front of Wu Youwei, he always feels that he is a little weak-hearted, and he can't seem to say a tough word, and he can't figure out the specific reason. For many years, Wu Youwei has been controlling the sales of Charles Schwab, and in his memory, there has never been a situation like this. Maybe psychologically, in the sales area, I still have a dependence complex on Wu Youwei, that is to say, I can't afford to annoy him now. However, if a ton of salt drops by 80 to 100 yuan as he proposed, the profit may not be enough to maintain the wages of employees, and if this continues, how many days will the company be able to survive in its own hands?

The meeting was always inconclusive, and Ning Xiangqian was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot every day. In the blink of an eye, it was Friday, and Ning Qianqian had a day's meeting, and he returned home very late. When he came to the door of his yard, he suddenly found that the lights in the house were on, and then he remembered that today was the weekend, and it should be the day when his wife Lu Zifei came back from the provincial capital. Since Lu Zifei was transferred to work in the Provincial Salt Industry Company, she has spent a lot less time at home, and can only come back on weekends when she has nothing to do.

"Husband, you're back!" Seeing Ning Xiangqian appear at the door, Lu Zifei stood up with a smile and greeted her, and she gave Ning Xiangqian a hug.

For Lu Zifei's affection, Ning Xiangqian's heart swelled with warmth. Xiao Biesheng is newly married, although the past things have always made her have such a layer of separation in her heart, but after a long time of separation, she still has a sense of intimacy when she sees her, and even has some impulses. He gave her a kiss back, a gentle pat on her back, and then a slump on the couch.

"What? You look like you're tired? Seeing Ning Xiangqian's tired face, Lu Zifei sat close to him and asked, "Has there been anything unpleasant in the company recently?" ”

"Alas! Isn't it because of sales? Ning Xiangqian replied reluctantly.

"Sales problems?" Lu Zifei asked, "Isn't the salt good to sell recently?" ”

"I'm going to break down!" Ning Xiangqian said: "Recently, it has been like a ghost, first the salt of the southern market department has not been sold, and then the sales of several other marketing departments have also gone wrong, and the salt hoarded in the company is about to reach the outside of the gate." ”

"Is it that serious? Isn't there a plan from the salt company in the company? It can be taken out for emergency relief. Lu Zifei said.

"The plan of more than 100,000 tons was used up in the first half of the year, so it can wait until now!" Ning replied forward.

"Then don't you have the idea to communicate with the salt branches?" Lu Zifei asked.

"Deputy General Manager Wu has communicated, saying that many salt companies think that our salt prices are a bit high, and they have switched to salt from salt companies in other provinces." Ning replied forward.

"Could there be such a thing?" Lu Zifei stared at Ning Xiangqian with a pair of big eyes, she was a little unconvinced: "Did the salt companies ask for price reductions before?" ”

"Nope! There was no warning! Ning Xiangqian replied: "It's like a ghost, and the salt can't be sold all of a sudden." ”

"It's not logical!" Lu Zifei said: "Jiaxin Company and the salt industry companies in the province have been old for many years, and it stands to reason that they should say hello in advance without Jiaxin Company's salt." ”

"I'm wondering about this, too!" Ning Xiangqian said suspiciously. As if he suddenly remembered something, he sat up straight suddenly, staring at Lu Zifei's face, and that look looked like Lu Zifei was a lifesaver when he drowned: "That's right!" Zifei, you have been in the Southern Marketing Department for a long time, and you are more familiar with the people in the salt industry branch, can you make a phone call to contact them and see if you can help Jiaxin Company save an emergency? ”

"If you don't say this, I'll call and ask, who made you my husband!" Lu Zifei glanced at Ning Xiangqian gently, and reached into her bag to find her phone.

The call was made, and none of the several salt companies under the management of the Southern Market Department were missed, but the result of the call made Ning Xiangqian and Lu Zifei stunned. (To be continued.) )