Chapter 144

I see that all the young people in the hospital have already become department heads.

He was the only one who was still a workshop director, and Liu Haizhong had long wanted to make progress.

When Li Jiandong left the steel rolling mill to go to Jilin and Liaoning, Liu Haizhong regretted not asking him for help in advance. Now that Li Jiandong is back and is about to be promoted, if he doesn't show his loyalty at this time, what is he waiting for?
Some are happy, some are worried.

Yi Zhonghai, who lived in the dormitory building of the tavern, was also very depressed when he learned that Li Jiandong was about to be promoted to factory director.

In the past few years, Yi Zhonghai had been suppressed by Li Jiandong and dared not do anything at all.

After much difficulty, Li Jiandong moved away, but there was still a place for him in the yard, and his apprentices had also grown up.

Even if Yi Zhonghai wanted to do something, he didn't dare to act rashly.

Finally, when Li Jiandong went to Jilin and Liaoning, Yi Zhonghai began to slowly turn things around.

He started with the kids in the kindergarten, buying them some candy or snacks every day in exchange for their favor.

At first, the children's parents were very vigilant, but as time went on, Yi Zhonghai just gave the children candy and did nothing else, and everyone's vigilance gradually decreased.
Half a year has passed. Although Yi Zhonghai's popularity in the yard cannot be said to have increased greatly, at least some residents in the yard are willing to talk to him.

If things continue at this pace, I can take advantage of the New Year to greet everyone and get closer to them, and maybe I can reintegrate into this compound.

After planning for a while, he could even defeat them one by one and win over the hearts of the people.

Finally, he seized the positions of Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui's uncles and regained control of the entire hospital.

Yi Zhonghai set a three-year time limit for this plan.

He was not in a hurry and planned to implement it slowly within three years. As long as he could get back to his position as the boss, he could slowly deal with those who had offended him in the past one by one.

But unexpectedly, the plan was very good, but the reality was very bleak.

Li Jiandong came back less than a year after leaving, and was about to be promoted.

Yi Zhonghai has put in so much effort, spent so much money, and lost so many smiles in the past six months, but with Li Jiandong's return, all of this has become a thing of the past.

Even the neighbors who used to chat and laugh with him now keep their distance from him.

Even the children refused to eat the candy he gave them.

"why why?"

"I just want to be a boss and work for the hospital, why don't you give me this opportunity?"

Yi Zhonghai hid in the dormitory building of the tavern and cried, and his cry sounded so sad that it sounded like "If there is Yu, why is there Liang?"

But his house is here, and since he can't leave, he decides...

There is no wall that is impenetrable. The news that Li Jiandong was going to be the factory director soon spread throughout the steel rolling mill. All departments were asked to report directly to Li Jiandong. Everyone was aware of the meaning behind this.

Li Jiandong's ability is not only reflected in his technological research and development, but also in his ability to do other things in an efficient manner.

For example, this year’s New Year’s goods.

In the past two years, large factories in the northern part of the city have gradually resumed New Year's goods and banquets, but the quantity and quality are much worse than in previous years, including the steel rolling mills. In the past two years, the New Year's goods and banquets were very ordinary.

But this year, Li Jiandong just took over the entire job, and the first thing he had to deal with was the year-end dinner and New Year’s goods.

As for this issue that all the workers were concerned about, Li Jiandong's approach was to use all the unplanned money for entertainment to buy pig's trotters and pork bones.

Nowadays, people like to buy fatty meat because fatty meat can be used to make oil, and pig trotters, shanks and even ribs are relatively cheap.

Li Jiandong asked the logistics department to buy all the unplanned purchases into these things, so that each worker could at least be given two more pig's trotters or some pork ribs.

Although these things are not much, they reflect Li Jiandong's concern for the workers.

In the past, even if the logistics department had some unplanned purchase quota left, it would not be given to the workers, but would be stored and kept for entertaining customers next year, or simply distributed directly to the management.

"Deputy Director Li, the New Year's goods have been purchased. Excuse me for being blunt, but the workers will only say one good word about you if they eat one more bite of meat.

But, if there is not enough supplies for the reception next spring, it will affect our factory’s production.”

The director of the logistics department came to report to Li Jiandong. Although the truth was unpleasant, he still chose to speak it out.

Although the steel rolling mill is a large factory, it often needs the cooperation of sister units. If the reception dinner is not done well, it is easy to offend people.

Especially the leaders of some smelting plants, because they supply steel ingots to rolling mills, they are holding the lifeline of the rolling mills. Once you offend them, you only need to make trouble in terms of supply, and it will be easy to affect production.

But Li Jiandong didn't care.

A good blacksmith must have strong tools himself. Li Jiandong’s goal is not just to maintain the status quo of the steel mill.

Once he becomes the factory director, he will definitely speed up the development. By then, as long as he makes some achievements and gets the attention of the leaders, other units will have to consider the consequences if they want to make things difficult for him.

Therefore, Li Jiandong started with New Year's goods. First, he really sympathized with the workers, who worked hard all year to earn a few dollars and could not even afford a good meal during the New Year.

Another reason is to boost morale and win people's hearts. Only when the workers are motivated and united can next year's work be carried out better.

"Don't worry, I have plans for production issues."

"In addition, I distributed meat to everyone not to make everyone praise me. As factory leaders, we not only fight for the construction of the country, but also have to be responsible for the workers who work with us."

"We have worked hard for the steel mill for a year. Do we have to haggle with them over such a small amount?"

Li Jiandong's words were like thunder, making the logistics director very ashamed.

It is this kind of leadership that is worth following with all your strength.
"Deputy Director Li, I understand. When I get back later, I'll have someone draw up a distribution plan and I'll ask you to review it then."

"Well, go ahead. By the way, this year we will increase the allocation ratio for engineers and workers above level 10. Let's increase it by 40% to %, increasing it in order of level."

After the new year, Li Jiandong is ready to speed up development and do something big.

And to do all this, we can only rely on engineers and senior workers.

After the logistics director left, Li Jiandong continued to work and was busy until almost six o'clock.

It was already dark at six o'clock in the winter, and Secretary Cui had been waiting in his office. Only after Li Jiandong came out did he leave the office building with him.

After parting with Secretary Cui downstairs, Li Jiandong got into the car and asked Xu Zhengyang:

"Have you brought the person back?"

Xu Zhengyang replied: "He has been brought back and sent to the dormitory building of the tavern."

"Okay, let's go home."

Li Jiandong nodded. He was asking Ding Qiunan.

Today, Ding Qiunan's train finally arrived at the station, and Li Jiandong sent Xu Zhengyang to pick her up.

Although Li Jiandong really wanted to go over and take a look now, it was too late. He decided to wait until tomorrow.

back home.

Qin Huairu also learned that Ding Qiunan had returned and told Li Jiandong that Ding Qiunan was pregnant.

"Alas! You said Qiu Nan is a very miserable child. He has waited for so many years but has not found a suitable partner.

As a result, she was cheated just a few days after arriving in Jilin. What a woman! She should get married earlier. The later she gets married, the more anxious she will be. When she is anxious, she will easily make mistakes. "

Qin Huairu kept sighing.

Li Jiandong didn't know what to say, so he kept silent.

Qin Huairu thought he was also angry about this, so she tactfully shut up.

The night passed.

the next day.

Li Jiandong came to the steel rolling mill and continued to preside over the day's work. He had planned to visit Ding Qiunan during the lunch break, but he did not expect Ding Qiunan to come to him on his own.

Hearing the knock on the door, Li Jiandong shouted: Come in.

Secretary Cui opened the door and walked in:

"Deputy Director Li, Ding Qiunan is here to see you."

"Oh?"

Li Jiandong raised his head, squeezed his sore eyes, closed the document he had just reviewed and asked, "Where is the person?"

Secretary Cui stepped aside to let Ding Qiunan come in, and then he said goodbye and left.

The door closed and Li Jiandong stood up and walked over.

He took her hand and said, "I was planning to come over to see you at noon. Why did you come here by yourself?"

Ding Qiunan knew what he meant. She should not walk around with her big belly to avoid falling or getting hurt.

He couldn't help but smile and said, "I went back yesterday afternoon and slept until about eight this morning. I felt uncomfortable lying down, so I felt much better after walking out."

“Has the relationship turned around?”

Li Jiandong asked again.

"Not yet. The file is on the way and it will take some time to mail it. However, I have already sent the letter of introduction to the government office on the first floor.

Director Chen said I can go back to work anytime and asked me to rest at home for a few days and come back after the Chinese New Year. However, I still want to come back earlier, as it is more uncomfortable to stay at home.

Ding Qiunan is almost nine months pregnant now, but there is no such thing as maternity leave. She knows that the Political Affairs Office allowed her to go back and rest for a while because of Li Jiandong's face.

However, the more this happened, the less willing Ding Qiunan was to take advantage of it.

"It's good to come to work. With Director Huang here, there will be someone to look after you."

Director Huang is the chief doctor of the factory clinic, but his skills are limited and not as good as Ding Qiunan.

Li Jiandong asked Ding Qiunan to come to the factory mainly because she was close to him. If any problem occurred, he would be the first to get the news and rush over. With his current level 3 medical skills, he could solve almost all unexpected situations.

After staying in Li Jiandong's office for a while, Ding Qiunan left

In a blink of an eye, it’s the end of the year.

After the year-end summary meeting, the next step is the annual holiday.

This year's Little New Year was celebrated in a simpler way, with only Li Jiandong and Sha Zhu's families gathered together.

Although there aren't as many people as in the past, the children are growing up and it's quite lively.

"Zhu Zi, how's the work going on over there on the street? No major problems, right?"

After dinner, Li Jiandong kept Sha Zhu to question him.

Now, Sha Zhu is no longer the director of Nanluoguxiang Police Station, but has been promoted to deputy director of the street.

He has been working in this position for more than two years. When Director Zheng retires next year, he may take over.

Of course, the premise is that there are no problems with his work, which is also the main purpose of Li Jiandong asking him questions.

Although Li Jiandong is very busy recently, he always cares about his apprentices.

"No, street work is pretty simple. Although it's a bit more work, it's not dangerous."

Shazhu smiled naively.

Li Jiandong nodded:
"The work of the street is tedious, and sometimes it requires some social skills. This is your weak point, but it's not a big problem. On the 30th, I will take you to visit Director Zheng. If you have any problems in the future, you should ask him for advice. Director Zheng was also on the battlefield before, and his temper is tougher than yours. Now he has become kinder."

Li Jiandong still admires Director Zheng very much.

There were only two people around him who had participated in the battle, the other one was Hu Haodang.

The reason why Li Jiandong was willing to let Hu Haodang live in his house was, firstly, that it would not look good if the house was empty, and secondly, because Hu Haodang had served in the army and fought in wars, and that was why he gave him food coupons.

Li Jiandong respects these people very much, especially after seeing so much garbage, these people seem particularly rare.

In the next few days, the number of people visiting Li Jiandong's home became more active.

There are cadres from the steel rolling mill and leaders from sister units.

The street director also came to see Li Jiandong.

Although the steel rolling mill does not belong to Qianmen Street, it is always good to make more friends.

Anyone who comes to visit would not come empty-handed, and soon Li Jiandong's warehouse would be filled with things.

Qin Huairu was so happy looking at so many good things that she couldn't close her mouth.

Now when you go home for the New Year, you don’t have to buy New Year’s goods yourself. Just take some gifts from this pile.

New Year's Eve.

After getting up in the morning, Li Jiandong drove to Director Zheng's house with Sha Zhu.

After not seeing Director Zheng for more than half a year, he has aged a little. He is almost sixty years old, and his head is already covered with white hair.

Li Jiandong invited Director Zheng to a dinner party at the tavern dormitory building, but this time Director Zheng declined.

"I will retire next year. When the time comes, I will definitely recommend He Yuzhu. It is good to keep a distance from you now, so as to avoid being gossiped by those with ulterior motives."

What Director Zheng said is true. When it comes to the replacement of street leaders, it is very likely that someone will do whatever it takes.

Li Jiandong nodded:

"Okay, I'll inconvenience you this year. When you retire, if you don't mind, you can move to the back of the tavern. There are still a few empty rooms in the dormitory building. If you go there, there will be more people to look after each other."

Director Zheng laughed.

"That's fine. I've lived here for many years and I'm tired of it. Being able to live in your courtyard is the dream of many residents in our street."

After saying this, Director Zheng and Li Jiandong both laughed.

After leaving Director Zheng's house, Li Jiandong and Sha Zhu came to the courtyard together.

Qin Huairu and Chen Xueru also came. Today, like previous years, there was a big gathering for the entire hospital at noon.

After the ban on extravagant celebrations in the past few years, the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year in the courtyard has become much less lively.

In the past two years, the ban on lavish celebrations has not been lifted.

But the management is obviously not as strict as before. Many courtyards have also pooled their money and organized gatherings like Courtyard No. 40, so that everyone can have something good to eat.

"Lao Li, come here for a moment."

As soon as he returned to the yard, Yan Bugui stood at the door and waved to Li Jiandong.

Li Jiandong asked Sha Zhu to help He Daqing prepare lunch first, and he followed Yan Bugui into his house. Only Yan Bugui and Yan Jiefang were in the room, and no one else was at home.

At this moment, Yan Jiefang stood aside somewhat stiffly, while Yan Bugui said with a playful smile:

"Old Li, you see Jiefang has been driving excavators for several years."

"We agreed that it would be easier to get a permanent job in a technical position. Jiefang's excavator-operating skills are outstanding among his group. Can you consider helping him get a permanent job?"

When Li Jiandong saw Yan Jiefang, he thought it might be this matter.

To be honest, Yan Jiefang's skills in operating an excavator are good, and if he gets married, he can indeed be made a permanent employee.

However, Yan Jiefang and Yan Bugui have not yet separated, and starting from a few years ago, the policy requires that each household can only have one worker.

So, even if Li Jiandong wanted to help him, it was really not convenient.

As for Yan Jiecheng back then, he came at the right time.

"Old Yan, the issue of your family's liberation is very easy to resolve.

He is already in his 20s, let him find a wife and separate from you."

"Otherwise, according to the regulations, since your family has a teacher like you, they can't have other workers. Even if I agree, the political office can't agree."

Yan Bugui said with a smile:

"Old Li, you are going to be the factory director soon. As long as you say a word, will the director of the political department dare not listen to you? Otherwise, you can..."

"Lao Yan!"

Li Jiandong suddenly raised his voice and his expression became serious: "Old Yan, as a teacher, your ideological awareness is not good enough. Whether I am the factory director or the deputy factory director, it is a responsibility, not a right to be abused at will. If it is reasonable, I can give priority to people I am familiar with, but you obviously do not meet the requirements."

"Anyway, I've told you the solution. You can do it yourself."

After Li Jiandong finished speaking, he turned away. Even though Yan Bugui called out to him a few times from behind, he did not stop.

Before, Yan Bugui often took advantage of others, but they were harmless and Li Jiandong didn't care about it.

But this time, knowing that the official policy would not allow it, he still wanted to take the back door, which was a bit too much.

Yan Bugui also realized that he had done something wrong, and during lunch, he toasted Li Jiandong to apologize.

When He Daqing learned of Yan Bugui's unreasonable wishes, he scolded him again.

Others also pointed fingers at Yan Bugui, blaming him for being greedy and lawless.

New Year's Day.

After getting up in the morning, the children came to wish him a happy new year, and Li Jiandong gave each of them a red envelope.

Then I took the gifts and drove to the leader’s house.

When he opened the door and saw the big boss, Li Jiandong handed over the things he had brought.

"Big boss, Happy New Year."

"It's all good, Jiandong. I didn't expect you to come and wish me a happy new year. This is the first time in all these years, right?"

The big boss was also very happy to see Li Jiandong. His hometown is not in the northern city, and his only son and daughter-in-law work in your province, and they often cannot come back for the New Year.

I thought that apart from a few subordinates in the unit, no one else would come today, but I didn't expect that the first person to come and wish a happy new year was Li Jiandong.

"Oh, this is Li Jiandong? He is indeed a handsome man."

The big boss's wife also came out, and from what she said, it could be heard that the big boss often mentioned Li Jiandong in front of her.

"Hello, Madam. I am Li Jiandong. I have often been taken care of by my superiors before. Today, I took this opportunity to come and visit you."

"Okay, Jiandong, come in first."

The leader led Li Jiandong into the house and sat him down in the living room.

(End of this chapter)