Chapter 172

He just felt that his son was too timid and couldn't even do such a simple thing.

She said angrily, "This is your son. As a father, can't you even help your own son?"

"What's the point of treating an official who thinks about his job all day and can't even help his own son?"

"Mom, you don't understand at all. It's not that I don't want to help, it's that I simply can't help. Even my master said it's impossible. Why are you so stubborn?"

Jia Dongxu was also speechless.

His mother was just an ordinary shrew.

He is quite good at fighting and swearing.

But when it comes to business, she is clueless.

It's too difficult to talk to such a woman.

Jia Zhang had no idea that she was being unreasonable. She felt that she knew her son very well and that he was just timid and cowardly.

Of course, perhaps what he was afraid of was not arranging a job for his child, but rather that he might disobey his master's wishes.

Therefore, Jia Zhang decided to go find Li Jiandong. As long as Li Jiandong gave the order, even if he did not arrange a job for his child, his son should have the courage to arrange one for him.

"Okay, I'll go find your master right away. I want to see if it's really so difficult that you can't even find a job for your child."

After Jia Zhang finished speaking, she prepared to go find Li Jiandong.

Jia Dongxu followed behind and said.

"Mom, can you please stop making trouble? My master is so busy, aren't you causing him trouble?"

Jia Zhang shook his arm off.

"Get out of my way. This concerns my grandson. You as a father may not care, but I as a grandmother cannot tolerate it. He has been away for so many years. What if he doesn't come back after going to the countryside? How can I see my grandson in this life? I am so old now, I might die one day. Do you want me to die with regrets?"

Jia Zhang has already said this.

What else can Jia Dongxu do?
I could only watch him go to find Li Jiandong.

these years.

Jia Dongxu made a lot of money.

He also bought a bicycle for Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang rode her bicycle towards the second courtyard in front of the door.

However, at this moment, Li Jiandong did not go home.

Because the steel factory was holding a meeting about going to the countryside to work.

Li Jiandong, as the director of the steel mill, is presiding over the team meeting.

At this moment, all the team members of the steel rolling mill gathered in the small conference room.

Li Jiandong sat on the podium and spoke to the audience.

"Everyone, you should have heard about the rural labor recently. Today, our superiors also issued a document, a guide for temporary workers to go to the countryside for labor. The content is very simple, that is, to streamline our temporary workers and keep only the necessary personnel. All the extra temporary workers will be dismissed and let them cooperate with the rural labor of the street."

"So, the meaning of today's meeting is that everyone should count the number of temporary workers in their own departments and divisions after returning home, and make a long list. Then, we will lay off employees according to this long list."

"Let me first talk about the basic principles of our layoffs this time.

First of all, in theory, none of the temporary workers in the office building should be retained, but more temporary workers in front-line positions can be retained.

Especially in terms of loading and unloading, we can relax a little and leave a few more unplanned ones."

In fact, everyone understands what Li Jiandong meant.

Temporary workers in the department are basically dispensable.

Most of the people placed there are people with connections.

Although there is no workstation available, the work is easy and the income is good.

Even if these people are laid off, it will not affect their work.

But, it's different for temporary workers in the workshop.
In particular, the workers who load and unload raw materials and railway transportation have to do heavy physical work, and most people cannot endure such hardship.

If we lay them off, who will handle the loading and unloading in the future? .
Although Li Jiandong has developed a forklift, the number of forklifts is still limited, and not everything can be loaded and unloaded with a forklift.

Therefore, the layoffs of stevedores must be done with caution.

Even if we keep more people, we can't keep too few.

Otherwise, not everyone can do this job.

After the meeting, each team member went home on their own.

Li Jiandong drove back to his second courtyard.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw a bicycle parked at the door.

Li Jiandong knew that someone must have come to visit. This kind of situation happened too many times, so he didn't take it seriously. After locking the car, he walked into the yard.

These days, Sha Zhu has also been busy with going to the countryside.

I often come back very late at night.

Fortunately, Ding Qiunan moved in, and the task of cooking was naturally handed over to her.

At this moment, the sound of cooking could be heard in the kitchen in front.

Li Jiandong walked straight over there.

As soon as I walked to the door, I saw two people in the room.

The one who was cooking was Ding Qiunan, and the other one who was helping was Jia Zhang.

"Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Li Jiandong asked in surprise.

Hearing the voice, Jia Zhang turned around and immediately put on a flattering smile on her face.

"Hey, Lao Li, you're finally back. Being a factory manager is such a busy job. You've worked so hard to get off work so late."

Jia Zhang always flatters people.

This made Li Jiandong even more certain that he was looking for him to help with something.

Now Jia Dongxu is at the same cadre level as himself. Even if Li Jiandong wants to help him make further progress, it may not be that easy.

Jia Zhang knew this, so she would not come to her just for Jia Dongxu.

Then why would he come to find me?

Li Jiandong quickly figured out what was going on. It might be because his grandson Banggeng was going to the countryside.

So he smiled and said.

"Yes, we have been very busy these past few days. It's all because of the rural labor movement. The higher authorities have issued instructions to our factory. Not only do the unemployed young people in the street have to go to the countryside, but even the temporary workers in our factory have to be laid off. Now our factory workers are going to have a hard time."

Li Jiandong said this on purpose.

I just want to let Jia Zhang know the seriousness of this matter.

Even temporary workers have to be cut.

As a high school student who hasn't even graduated yet, why don't you go to the countryside to work?

When Jia Zhang heard this, she frowned and showed an incredible expression.
"No way, how can you even cut the workers in your factory?"

Li Jiandong said with a wry smile.

"Sister-in-law, how can I lie to you about this? I am also having a headache because of this matter. You said that these temporary workers usually work very hard."

Li Jiandong paused deliberately with embarrassment.

"No one wants to be laid off."

"Many of them are the backbone of their families. If you lay them off, what will happen to their families?"

"But this is the reality. The authorities attach great importance to rural labor this time. No one is exempted. We can only try our best to complete the arrangements made by the authorities."

Jia Zhang sighed and said.

"What kind of thing is this? I was thinking of letting Banggeng work as a temporary worker in your factory, so that he can avoid the "Down to the Countryside Movement" campaign. I didn't expect that even your factory would be like this."

"Hey, Lao Li, since our two families have a good relationship, can you help my Bang Geng?"

"The factory still has to keep 500 temporary workers anyway, so they don't need one more, right? You can just lay off one more and put my guy in there, right? Isn't that right?"

Li Jiandong was speechless.

"Sister-in-law, please don't make it difficult for me. In this situation, our superiors have asked us to lay off temporary workers."

"If you put people in at this time, won't that make me make a mistake?"

"Don't forget that we still have the Management Committee. Even if Hu Haodang is one of us, if others find out, they will definitely gossip about him. So many factory directors have been removed in the past two years. You don't want me to be one of them, do you?"

Li Jiandong's words were already considered quite harsh.

After hearing this, Jia Zhang had nothing to say.

After all, Li Jiandong was right.

In the past two years, the number of factory directors who have been removed from their posts by the Management Committee is too great to be counted on one hand.

There are seven or eight such people that Jia Zhang alone knows about.

"Lao Li, if that's the case, I won't make it difficult for you. I'll go back and see if I can think of any other solution."

Although Jia Zhang said this, she knew it very well in her heart.

It is basically inevitable that Banggeng will go to the countryside.

the next day.

The steel mill began to compile a list of temporary workers.

Those temporary workers also knew the fate they were about to face, and they all tried to find connections to stay in North City and the steel mill.
If they lose their jobs, they will most likely move to the countryside as well.

Once you leave this time, it’s hard to say whether you can come back in the future.

When the layoffs first started, the temporary workers in the department did not feel any sense of crisis. They were all very confident, thinking that they would not be laid off first.

Those who can work as temporary workers in a department at least know the team members.

Who knew that Li Jiandong would do the exact opposite and not give any face to the team members at all.

The first ones to be attacked are them.

But if you think about it carefully, everyone can understand it.

After all, Li Jiandong comes from a working-class family and is a man who gets things done.

He knows best who is the most important person in this place.

For Li Jiandong, maintaining the normal operation of the steel rolling mill is far more important than giving face to the team members.

"Director Xu, I heard that our factory is going to lay off temporary workers. All temporary workers in all departments will be laid off. Is that true?"

Yu Haitang found Xu Fugui and asked.

Her current job is a temporary worker, working as a broadcaster in the Propaganda Department.

This is a good job, one that many people want but cannot get.

Yu Haitang got the job of broadcaster thanks to the relationship between her sister and brother-in-law.

But he no longer has a workstation at home.

Yu Haitang has not yet married, and his household registration is also tied to Yu Li.

Yu Li is now a kindergarten teacher and a formal employee.

So Yu Haitang can only work here as a temporary worker.

It doesn't matter if you are a temporary worker. After all, the treatment of temporary workers is not bad, and it's not a stable job.

She has a relationship with her brother-in-law and Li Jiandong, so being a temporary worker is almost the same as being a regular worker.

With Li Jiandong's face, who could fire her?
But I didn't expect it.

The first people Li Jiandong wanted to lay off were the temporary workers in their department.

This made Yu Haitang suddenly feel a sense of crisis.

Once she was laid off, not only would she lose her job, but she would also have to go to the countryside to work.

She hasn't separated from Yu Li yet.

According to the current policy, only one out of two people can stay in the city.

Xu Fugui sighed and said.

"Haitang, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just a document our factory just issued.

All temporary workers in all departments should not be retained and all should be laid off. This is what Director Li said personally."

"Even if you didn't ask, I was going to tell you. Go find your sister and your brother-in-law and ask your brother-in-law to talk to Director Li about this matter. Maybe there is still room for maneuver."

They are all from the same compound, and Xu Fugui also wants to take care of Yu Haitang.

But he is just the director of the publicity department.

But I dare not go against Li Jiandong.

Yu Haitang was dumbfounded when he heard this.

"Okay, thank you Director Xu. I'll go back to see my sister now. Can I take half a day off?"

"Okay, let's go."

Xu Fugui waved his hand. Yu Haitang put down his work and left quickly.

Return to the Tavern Dormitory Building.

There is a kindergarten next to it.

Now the kindergarten has been taken over by the street office, and Yu Li has been promoted from a temporary worker to a regular worker.

Originally, after Yu Li married Yan Jiecheng, she and Yu Haitang should have separated.

However, because Yu Haitang was too young at the time, Yu Li moved her household registration to her own home in order to protect her.

I didn't expect that this unintentional act would lead to such a big trouble now.

Now that people have started to move to the countryside, it is not easy to move their household registration out.

After all, the streets are afraid of trouble and are afraid that some people will use this method to avoid going to the countryside. They must have had countermeasures long ago and would not allow such a thing to happen.

"sister."

Yu Haitang stood at the entrance of the kindergarten.

He waved and shouted to Yu Li who was playing with the children in the kindergarten yard.

When Yu Li saw that it was her sister who came over, she handed the child to someone else.

"Haitang, why are you here? Don't you have to go to work?"

"Sister, why should I go to work? I'm about to be laid off."

"Ah? What happened? Why were you laid off? Can you tell me in detail?"

Yu Li was also shocked when she heard this.

Although she had heard about going to the countryside to receive re-education through labor, she had no idea that the steel mill was going to lay off temporary workers.

Yu Haitang said anxiously.

"Sister, we have 3000 temporary workers in our factory, and we are going to lay off 2500 of them. Temporary workers in our department cannot be retained, and I am also on the list of those being laid off."

"Sister, please go find my brother-in-law and ask him to help me think of a solution. No matter what, you have to keep me here, otherwise I will have to go to the countryside with them."

Yu Haitang said this almost crying.

In such a good place in North City, the living conditions are also so good.

I also have my sister and brother-in-law to help me.

What a happy and beautiful day this is.

But once you go to the countryside.

Then all these good days will be gone.

Even if I can be assigned to a better place, can it be better than North City?
Yu Li didn't expect this to happen and quickly comforted Yu Haitang.

"Haitang, don't worry. I'll go find your brother-in-law and ask him what's going on."

After Yu Li finished speaking, she went to ask for leave from the director, and then returned to the steel mill with Yu Haitang.

As soon as she entered the transport team's gate, someone recognized Yu Li.

"Hey, sister-in-law, why are you here? Come in and sit down first. Are you here to look for our captain? He is patrolling downstairs now. I will go and call him for you."

In the fleet office, an ordinary clerk saw Yu Li.
Immediately greeted warmly.

Then after settling her down, he went to find Yan Jiecheng.

A few minutes passed.

Yan Jiecheng came back and looked at his wife with some confusion. "Wife, why are you here?"

In fact, when I saw Yu Haitang next to Yu Li.

Yan Jiecheng already had a plan in mind.

really.

"Jie Cheng, I just heard Yu Haitang say that your factory is going to lay off employees, and she is among them. Why didn't you tell me about such an important matter?"

Yu Haitang also looked at Yan Jiecheng with resentment.

Normally, this brother-in-law treated her well and treated her like his own sister, but she didn't expect this to be the case in this matter.

He pretended not to know.

The layoff list was discussed during their meeting last night.

If he were to tell himself.

I definitely wouldn’t wait until now.

Yan Jiecheng sighed.

"Wife, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but it's useless to tell you. My master said this personally, and all departments must follow it. Although I also want Haitang to stay, there are so many temporary workers in our factory, can we keep only her?"

Yan Jiecheng certainly wanted to help Yu Haitang.

But he couldn't go against Li Jiandong.

After all, Li Jiandong is his master, and he is where he is today thanks to his master’s help.

Yan Jiecheng has this self-awareness.

So I am especially grateful.

Even his parents and daughter-in-law are not as important as Li Jiandong in his heart.

At most the difference is not big.

What's more, Yu Haitang is just his sister-in-law, so for Yan Jiecheng, he would not bother about this matter at all and would definitely stand firmly on Li Jiandong's side.

"Wife, if you really want to stay, Haitang, you might as well think of other ways. Anyway, don't go looking for Master. This will only cause trouble for him."

Hearing this, Yu Haitang was a little angry.

Going to the countryside to work is a big deal.

Not only did her brother-in-law ignore her, he also prevented her from going to find Li Jiandong.

Could it be that in his heart, his master is so much more important than his sister-in-law?

"Sister, please don't make things difficult for my brother-in-law. I will figure out a way to deal with this matter myself. You don't have to worry about it."

After all, Yu Haitang was once the school belle and also the belle of Changgang Factory.

Usually, she is pampered by others. She also has a bit of a bad temper.

Since Yan Jiecheng doesn't want to help him.

Yu Haitang simply didn't need his help.

He just waved his hand and left.

Yu Li was left alone, looking at Yan Jiecheng helplessly.

"Jiecheng, you're too direct. Even if it really doesn't work, you can be more tactful. Or you can come back and tell me, and I'll tell Haitang. You know Haitang's temper."

Yan Jiecheng sighed.

"Wife, how could I not know what you said? I have experienced your sister's temper a long time ago."

"If I could talk to her nicely, I would definitely talk to her nicely, but this matter cannot be talked about nicely. We must let her know the interests involved, otherwise it will be my master who will be in trouble."

Yan Jiecheng is a relatively clear-headed person.

Knowing that some things need to be made clear in advance.

If you drag on and on, you won't be able to explain everything clearly, and there will be more things to worry about later.

If I don't explain things clearly to Yu Haitang, given her temper, she might go to Li Jiandong.

Wouldn't that just cause trouble for his master?

However, what Yan Jiecheng did not expect was that even if he had made his words final.

Yu Haitang decided to go and ask Li Jiandong.

She left the transport team and went directly to the office building.

Outside the factory director's office on the second floor, he was stopped by Secretary Cui.

"Yu Haitang, what are you doing here?"

The Propaganda Department was also in the office building, and Secretary Cui had heard of this beauty in the factory. She knew that she and Director Li were from the same department, so she was more polite to her.

Yu Haitang spoke up.

"Secretary Cui, I want to see Director Li. Is he in the office?"

Secretary Cui did not answer him but asked back.

"What do you want to see Director Li about?"

Yu Haitang said carelessly.

"Secretary Cui, I'm telling you the truth. We are currently compiling a list of temporary workers. Director Li knows about my family's situation. There are only my sister and I in my family. After my sister got married, I was the only one left in the family. Do you still want me to go to the countryside in this situation?"

In fact, in Yu Haitang's situation, he shouldn't have to go to the countryside.

The key is the problems they had with their own operations before.

This has resulted in a very chaotic family relationship between her and her sister.

If it is a normal day, you can just go to the street and make some changes.

But now is the right time, and if the restrictions are strict, it will be difficult to deal with.

If Yu Haitang changes the relationship, other families will definitely follow suit after knowing it. At that time, the street's work of going to the countryside for labor will be even more difficult to carry out.

Yu Haitang is not the kind of person who would suffer losses easily.

So, she came directly to Li Jiandong.

Secretary Cui has been a secretary for so many years, so he must be able to do the job.

I quickly understood what Yu Haitang meant.

So he said to her.

"Yu Haitang, you've got the wrong person. Your household registration is in the street, so if you want to resolve the issue, you have to go to the street office.

Our factory's layoff of temporary workers has nothing to do with your household registration issue, so it's useless for you to go to Director Li."

"Besides, Director Li is in a meeting today and is not in the factory either," said Secretary Cui.

Of course Yu Haitang knew that she had to go to the street office.

She came to see Li Jiandong, actually she also wanted to take a back door.

"Okay, Secretary Cui, I'll go back first."

Yu Haitang didn't say much to Secretary Cui.

Since Li Jiandong is not here, there is no point in saying more to Secretary Cui.

Now she can only wait for Li Jiandong to come back.

Or you can just go to his house to see him in the evening.

In short, there is no hope for her to go to the street office on her own.

After all, that Shazhu is like a fool. Except for his master and his wife, it is impossible for others to let him take the back door.

We waited until the evening, but Li Jiandong still didn't come back.

When the meeting in the department ended, it was already evening. Li Jiandong drove directly back to his second courtyard.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw Ding Qiunan cooking there.

"Master, are you back from get off work?" Han Chunming was also in the front yard.

Teaching Ding Qiunan's children.

When he saw Li Jiandong, he walked out of the house.

"Chunming, you are here too?"

Li Jiandong smiled and nodded.

Every time Han Chunming comes over, there must be something good.

In fact, Han Chunming would come to see him every two or three days.

His junk gang collects antiques very quickly.

Sometimes I can receive more than ten or twenty pieces a day.

Some of these things were priceless, and Han Chunming didn't dare to take them himself.

Sometimes he even came to see Li Huaiming in the middle of the night.

Just so he could quickly hide everything.

"Yes, Master, I haven't been here for three days. They have packed up a whole room of stuff. Do you think you can go over and take a look when you have time to pack up all the stuff?"

Han Chunming grinned.

Acting very proudly.

He really loves this job.

You can see new antiques every day.

(End of this chapter)