industrial overlord

Chapter 299 Borrowing Money
The Spring Festival of 1987 was spent amidst the turmoil.

The cadres and workers of Hanhua Heavy Industry had a very lively new year.As the state further expands the autonomy of enterprises, the degree of freedom of enterprises in paying wages and bonuses has been greatly improved.According to Lin Zhenhua's proposal, the company's year-end bonus reached an average of 600 yuan per person before the Spring Festival, which caused a sensation in the light and chemical industry system of the entire Xunyang City and Jiangnan Province.

According to statistics, throughout 1986, the per capita annual salary of employees of state-owned units in Jiangnan Province was only 1215 yuan, while Hanhua Heavy Industry paid 600 yuan for the year-end bonus alone. What an exaggerated figure.The accountants and cashiers in the finance department counted money all night long, and everyone's hands were cramped all the time.

Light Chemical Department and Provincial Economic Commission are the higher-level departments of Hanhua Heavy Industry, and the cadres in the agency have only received less than 100 yuan in bonuses and in kind by the end of the year. Seeing Hanhua Heavy Industry’s big money distribution, everyone’s heart is inevitably a little sour .

For this problem, Shi Dalun, who is in charge of logistics, is very clear. After asking Lin Zhenhua for instructions, he bought more than a dozen truckloads of New Year's goods in one go, and sent them to the "mother-in-law" units in the province, Xunyang City, and Fenghua County. Go there, distribute according to the size of the official position, so that everyone has a share.As a result, everyone's slander against Hanhua Heavy Industry disappeared, and they all talked about how good it is to have such a rich subordinate unit, and said that they should find a way to continue to take care of this unit next year.

It is an unspoken rule that everyone understands that lower-level units give gifts to higher-level units.Although Xie Chunyan, Zhu Tiejun and the others have some jealous characters, they are not single-minded people. They know that they should not be too lofty in this kind of matter, otherwise the company will suffer.Although Xiang Zhe and other returnees were very upset about this matter, they also did not raise any objections. These people are also people with high IQs, and they know that it is absolutely impossible to change the social atmosphere with the power of an enterprise. of.

Among the state-owned enterprises, there are really not many people like Hanhua Heavy Industry who live a happy life.Urban reform has entered its fourth year, and most state-owned enterprises are facing very serious operating difficulties.The almost one-size-fits-all contracting system has allowed some capable people to take leadership positions in state-owned enterprises, but the supporting regulatory measures have lagged behind.Under such circumstances, the rise and fall of state-owned enterprises depends almost entirely on the personal ability and morality of the contractors, and morality is often the most unreliable thing.

Many years later, scholars pointed out with hindsight that once power is out of control, it will bring disaster.But at that time, there was only one mainstream voice: Decentralization!

Lin Zhenhua occasionally chatted with Zhu Tiejun, Lang Dong, Xiang Zhe and others about the country's economic situation. Except for Lin Zhenhua, everyone was worried.The old people's point of view is that the reform is too messy, and the policy should be curtailed a little bit.People like Xiang Zhe have the opposite opinion. They think that the reforms are not enough. If they let go in one go and develop some new thinking like the Soviet Union's Gorbachev, China's problems will be completely solved.

At that time, Gorbachev in the Soviet Union was definitely a bright light in the reform, using his bright head to guide the direction of reform in socialist countries.However, Lin Zhenhua is a person who has a clear vision of the future. Facing the enthusiasm of Xiang Zhe and others when they talked about the Soviet Union, he always smiled slightly and said, "No hurry, just wait and see. Within five years, we will see for ourselves."

Regardless of the international and domestic situation, Hanhua Heavy Industry is still enjoying peace and prosperity after all, so everyone is just acting as a verbal politician, chatting casually.The 40-ton large chemical fertilizer project in Northern Province has been approved, and the oil refinery project on the Siya tribe in Africa will also start. Everyone really doesn't have much time to care about national affairs.

Regarding the project of the Siya Oil Refinery, Hanhua Heavy Industries sent more than a dozen engineers and management personnel to make a special trip to South Sudan for inspection under the protection of Lanwufeng's armed forces.The content of the engineers' investigation is mainly technical issues such as the output of the oil field and the fraction composition of crude oil.It turns out that the refining process is not universal. For different types of crude oil, different technological processes need to be adopted, and each set of refining equipment needs to be individually designed according to the type of crude oil.These things are completely unfamiliar to Lin Zhenhua, but with Wei Dongqi, He Chengshan and others here, there is no need for Lin Zhenhua to worry.

What the management personnel went to inspect was mainly the local construction conditions and safety conditions, including the transportation route of future equipment, the living guarantee of workers, and so on.Since northern Sudan is controlled by the government forces, southern Sudan is somewhat of a local warlord. The equipment provided by Hanhua Heavy Industries is unlikely to be transported from the Red Sea through northern Sudan, and only transit through Ethiopia or Kenya can be considered.Regarding this issue, Chen Tian gave Lin Zhenhua a guarantee, saying that the relationship between these two countries and China is not bad, and if the local tribes are given some tolls, the passage of the equipment should not be a problem.

Large chemical fertilizers and oil refineries are both quite large projects. In addition, the overseas sales team led by Chu Hongyang is still pulling in various orders, and the manpower of Hanhua Heavy Industry seems to be insufficient.Xie Chunyan once said helplessly to Lin Zhenhua: "You are a typical example of adding water when there is too much noodles, and adding noodles when there is too much water. Just now you have enough manpower, and you start to toss out big projects, and then there are not enough manpower. If this continues, Do you want to put the entire Jiangnan Province under the name of Hanhua Heavy Industry?"

"Isn't it good to have a big project?" Lin Zhenhua smiled, "Director Xie, now everyone is worried about not being able to find business. Our company's business can't be completed. Isn't this a good thing?"

"But, where are you going to get so many workers now?" Xie Chunyan said, "I know about oil refineries. Your old Hanhua factory has never done this. If petrochemical machines..."

Speaking of this, Xie Chunyan stopped talking and turned to a long sigh.The petrochemical machine is already a historical concept, and now the name of this factory is Jiang Shidian, which is a refrigerator company.

"By the way, Director Xie, how is Jiang Shidian's profitability now?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Xie Chunyan shook her head with a dark face: "Jiang Shidian is no longer good. The profit was not bad in the first two years, and I don't know what happened, but it collapsed all of a sudden. The factory invested indiscriminately outside, and it wasted all the money. Now the products The quality is not good, and users have repeatedly complained. Last time, Jiangnan Daily published an article called "The Refrigerator Doesn't Cool, Qibao Becomes a Living Treasure."

"Who wrote this?" Lin Zhenhua was angry and funny.Qibao is the brand name of Jiangshi Refrigerator, which is a combination of local and foreign brands.Lin Zhenhua can fully imagine how much negative impact such a report will have on Jiang Shidian's sales.

"I don't blame the reporter, but Jiang Shidian's internal management is completely rotten, and the quality of the refrigerator is not comparable to that at the beginning." Xie Chunyan said, "If this continues, alas..."

"If Jiang Shidian fails, can we poach some workers from there?" Lin Zhenhua gloated.

Lin Zhenhua has no feelings for Jiang Shidian. What he is interested in is that there are 2000 workers who have experience in oil refining equipment production.If you can poach hundreds of people from them, it will be a new force.In the past, Jiang Shidian's profits were good and bonuses were large, and he couldn't poach people even if he wanted to.If Jiang Shidian really collapsed, then he raised the recruitment flag, still worrying about not having enough people to eat?In this sense, he is the one who most expects Jiang Shidian to collapse.Of course, this cannot be said, otherwise, not to mention Jin Jianbo would have trouble with him, even Xie Chunyan would have to discipline him.

"Go to Jiangshidian to poach people, don't move yet. Jiangshidian's matter, now...forget it, I won't mention it in advance." Xie Chunyan hesitated to speak.

Now that Xie Chunyan said so, Lin Zhenhua put the matter aside.He still has a very important matter at hand, that is, Liu Xianghai from Shanghai called him and asked him to take a few engineers and workers to Shanghai. They have some work in their office and want to ask Hanhua Heavy Industry for help.In terms of workers, Liu Xianghai directly named Peng Gang, Zhou Houcheng, and Sun Changyuan, all of whom were the top technical talents of the original Hanhua factory.After all, Liu Xianghai has been working as a wood model worker in the Hanhua factory for so many years, and he knows Hanhua's family well.

Lin Zhenhua wanted to leave Jiang Shidian's matter behind, but the matter found his way.Just the day before he planned to leave for Shanghai, Shen Jiale unexpectedly appeared in front of his office.

"Lin Zhenhua, are you... busy?" Shen Jiale asked timidly. Even though Lin Zhenhua had become Manager Lin and President Lin, Shen Jiale always called him by his first name.

"Shen Jiale, why are you here?" Lin Zhenhua was quite surprised, he quickly let Shen Jiale into the room and asked her to sit on the sofa.

Over the past year or so, Shen Jiale has been to Xunyang many times, but each time he was in contact with Ma Jie and the others, mainly to help with welding.Lin Zhenhua doesn't care much about the specific production anymore, so he doesn't have much to do with Shen Jiale.Now that Shen Jiale came to his office, there must be something important.In theory, it is impossible for Shen Jiale to come to the office to chat with him.

"Why, Shen Jiale, do you need me for anything?" Lin Zhenhua asked enthusiastically while pouring water for Shen Jiale.Lin Zhenhua has always had a feeling of closeness to this innocent and beautiful female worker.

"Well, I have something, I want to trouble you, okay?" Shen Jiale said in a low voice.

"No problem, as long as I can help." Lin Zhenhua said.

"I think... I want to borrow some money from you, can I?"

"Of course." Lin Zhenhua said, "How much do you want to borrow? By the way, is it you who borrow it personally, or does your factory want to borrow it?"

It was only after Lin Zhenhua took it for granted that he suddenly came to his senses.The girl in front of me is not just a female worker, she is also the wife of Jiang Shidian's deputy factory director.The last time I was assigned by Jin Jianbo, I came to ask him to get the compressor index. This time, it’s not to help the factory borrow money, right?
Shen Jiale said: "I want to borrow it personally."

"Then there is no problem at all. How much do you want? I will ask the accountant to give it to you first, and I will take it out of my personal passbook later and return it to the accountant." Lin Zhenhua said.

Shen Jiale plucked up her courage, looked up at Lin Zhenhua and said, "I want to borrow... [-], is that okay?"

(End of this chapter)