Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 672 Iron Lady

After Zhang Xinmei got off the bus, she walked along the sidewalk and walked to the factory entrance in a muddle-headed manner without deliberately taking advantage of the shade of the trees on the roadside.

In fact, after being explicitly rejected by the leader at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, her thoughts became extremely complicated.

fraud?

The people at the postal and telecommunications service said it with certainty. They are professionals, so they should be able to tell the difference clearly.

But how to explain that exquisitely crafted prototype equipment?

What does their factory have that makes it easy for the other party to deceive?

Zhang Xinmei doesn't know who to trust now. She has a plan in mind: test it out. Let’s have another interview with Mr. Li. This time we need to ask clearly what material conditions they will need to pay after the project is launched.

Along the way, she had been thinking about a possibility:

If the approval is obtained, they firmly believe in the prospects of this project - even if they show the prototype to others, they are expected to be shocked. In this case, if Mr. Li proposes to let them borrow money, they will not be able to No, the bank is optimistic about this project and may actually lend to them.

If Mr. Li is a liar, they have really fallen into a trap.

"Let's see if he opens his mouth. He understands the difficulties of our factory and cooperates in business. Appropriate investment is in line with cleanup. But if he opens his mouth, there is a high probability that there is a real problem."

Zhang Xinmei muttered softly, already making a decision in her heart.

"Hello, director!" The small door in the lower right corner of the rusty iron gate of the factory yard opened. Ma Hongqin from the security department came out of the gate to open the door. She was smiling and full of energy. She saluted the standard military salute to the person outside the door. .

She is a retired female soldier.

Ok?

Zhang Xinmei was a little surprised, looking her up and down, feeling a little dazed for a moment. How long has it been since you saw such a smile and such spirit in the factory?

"Hongqin...is there any happy event in your family?"

"I don't have one at home. There is a happy event in the factory. Director, you don't know about it yet, right?" Ma Hongqin couldn't contain her excitement. She saw that the factory director really didn't know and was about to explain it to her...

"Oh--"

In the factory area, from the direction of the three-story administrative building, there was a sudden burst of cheers, loud and enthusiastic.

Under the exaggeration of this extremely joyful mood, it was so deserted that no sound of machine operation could be heard. The entire factory area, which looked like a bleak and faded old photo, seemed to be wrapped in a layer of festive red makeup.

Zhang Xinmei was full of surprise and looked towards the direction where the cheers came from, unable to see anything. Then, she quickly pulled her gaze back to fall on Ma Hongqin again. "what happened?"

Ma Hongqin smiled crookedly and led her into the guard booth. There were two security department employees inside. She stood up to greet her at the same time. On the table in front of one of the employees, Zhang Xinmei spotted something rare with her peripheral vision and fixed her eyes on it. Looking at it, I couldn’t help but be surprised:

"Hey! Where did you get such a large denomination of foreign exchange coupons?"

"He is from the Finance Department."

"Ah?!" Zhang Xinmei's eyes widened. She didn't even know there was half a cent of foreign exchange in the factory.

"We have twelve people in the security department and we were issued two."

"Hehe, they told us to go shopping and exchange it ourselves. We are discussing where to exchange it for the most cost-effective price. Chief Ma has a relative who wants one, and we don't understand the ratio. We plan to inquire about the market price first."

Looking at the three people's expressions of joy, Zhang Xinmei was stunned. Has the Finance Department distributed foreign exchange to employees? Twelve people dare to issue two hundred yuan in foreign exchange?

Where did it come from? !

How many people dare to say this? !

"Director, I heard about it." Ma Hongqin, the chief of the security department, said with a smile, "It's those distinguished guests. Well, Mr. Li, the leader, saw that our factory was in trouble and said that there would be business capital exchanges in the future anyway. They borrowed a sum of money from us to pay their wages. They probably didn’t bring much money with them when they went out, only foreign exchange, so..."

Zhang Xinmei opened her eyes wide and asked, "He lent money to our factory to pay wages?"

Ma Hongqin scratched her head and replied with a sneer: "Actually, it's not something I heard. Lao Jin from the Finance Department told me."

The implication is absolutely true.

Zhang Xinmei's heart was throbbing, and she turned around and ran straight to the door. However, as soon as she left the house, Ma Hongqin and the others continued to look around the foreign exchange certificate and walked back.

"No, no, it's hard for me to show up now. They must be waiting for good news from me when they come to the factory. I can't let them down, yes, I can't..."

Zhang Xinmei muttered to herself, her face was full of mixed emotions, full of shock, excitement, excitement, gratitude, apprehension...but no doubt.

The trace of suspicion brought out from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau building was completely shattered from the pit of her heart.

It can't be a liar!

It's impossible!

What liar can do this?

"Director?" Ma Hongqin asked with concern. The director seemed to be mentally a little abnormal.

"Hong Qin, go and call all the management staff right away... No, no, there are still some people left in the factory to entertain them. In this way, I will make a list, and you go and call all these people. I will Wait at the door."

After Zhang Xinmei finished speaking, she leaned over to a five-drawer table with heavily peeled red paint in the gate booth. She took a red-lined letter with the name of the factory from the table, and took out a letter from the blue cloth bag in her hand. Hero brand pen, quickly write down a long list of names.

"Go!" Tear off a page of letter paper and stuff it into Ma Hongqin's hand.

"……Oh."

About a quarter of an hour later, Ma Hongqin brought the "large troops", and everyone was smiling and beaming with joy. However, when everyone saw the serious expression of the factory director, they couldn't help but feel shuddering.

Sure enough, there was bad news.

Outside the gate, Zhang Xinmei glanced at the group of capable officers and said in a deep voice: "Comrades, I won't hide anything from you. I just came back from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and their attitude is very clear: they will not develop radio communication business for our factory. Approval..."

"what……"

"It's over, it's over. Didn't Mr. Li say that if you can't get the approval, everything will be in vain?"

"Oh my, they just lent us a large sum of foreign exchange."

"What can we do?"

All the backbone managers of the Iron Lady Factory were stamping their feet anxiously, and a few younger ones had tears in their eyes.

"There is only one way now." Zhang Yumei pointed in one direction and said, "Go to the city hall, we can cry or beg, no matter what, we must get the approval document. Let's go together. If we can't get the approval document, we, we..."

"We won't come back!" "Yes! The factory finally hoped for help from noble people, so we must keep them."

"This should be the only chance to revitalize the factory."

"What a great partner. If this project can be completed and we can follow the trend of others, the factory may be better than ever before and even grow stronger."

"Director, let's go!"

Everyone was extremely united and completely united.

At the moment, Zhang Xinmei ordered Ma Hongqin: "If we haven't returned by the time we get off work, tell Mr. Li to go back first, and I will definitely bring the approval document back."

"Yes!"

Ma Hongqin stood at attention with a solemn expression. In her sight, a group of leaders left the factory together, running towards the power center of the city with an aura of "the wind is rustling and the water is cold, and the strong men will never return". .

She thought: Isn’t this the spirit of the Iron Lady?

When Zhang Xinmei and others came to the city government compound, they were not able to succeed as expected, because for matters at the industrial and commercial level, leaders must first consult the industrial and commercial department for their opinions, and the industrial and commercial bureau's attitude was very clear.

In a conference room on the fifth floor of the city government building, Director Rong, who came to handle this matter, looked at the people who filled half of the conference room, and said with a headache:

"What are you doing? Are you forcing me to have a baby? Even if the other party is not a liar according to what you said, this is unreasonable.

“Industry and commerce do not agree, and neither do the Posts and Telecommunications.

"I'm telling you, there's nothing I can do, and it's useless for you to force me."

Zhang Xinmei didn't lead anyone to make a fuss. Xiaozhi moved her emotionally and said with reason:

"Our factory is about to die. Is it because we are not active in our work or because our products have quality problems? None. It is caused by the market trend. We also don't want to cause trouble to the country. Aren't the higher authorities encouraging the self-rescue of the tertiary industry? ?

"Then I can't figure it out. Raising pigs, running a housekeeping company, and opening a restaurant are just side projects. What's the essential difference between raising pigs and doing radio communications?

"Just because this business is high-tech and only the Post and Telecommunications Company can handle it, should they be the only ones to handle it? This is unreasonable!

"Business and industry should not disagree, and the Postal and Telecommunications Bureau is not qualified to disagree! Why should they be allowed to do it alone? We don't need their resources, nor do we need any help from them."

Director Rong pressed his lips together, unable to refute. "You, if you want to stay here, just stay."

After all, walk away.

Zhang Xinmei and others stayed here from noon until dusk when they were about to get off work. People from the security department came over to ask them to leave. Zhang Xinmei did not want to embarrass others, so she led a group of people downstairs and poked at the side of the steps leading to the main building. , don’t make any noise, just fight quietly.

At the same time, in the Iron Lady sanitary products factory.

Security Section Chief Ma Hongqin found Li Jiankun and others who had drank a lot of tea in a reception room in the administration building, and apologetically conveyed the factory director's words to them.

Li Jiankun didn't plan to get the results today. This kind of thing always takes some time. He came here to stay just because he had nothing else to do, or if the Iron Lady Factory couldn't get the approval, it wouldn't be able to follow up.

He waved his hand to show that it was okay, and asked with a smile: "Where did they go? Did many people in the factory go?"

It was obvious that most of the leaders in the factory were not there in the afternoon.

"It should be the city government, the factory director didn't say anything."

"You won't come back tonight?"

"We won't reply until we get the approval." Ma Hongqin raised her chin slightly and said, "This is the iron lady spirit of our factory."

Li Jiankun gave a thumbs up, then waved and led everyone back to Jinjiang Hotel.

Besides, in the city government compound, the night has completely opened. Zhang Xinmei and others are still standing outside the door of the main building with few lights left. People from the security department and various staff in the compound have come and persuaded them countless times. Go back first, it's completely useless.

Most of them have not eaten since breakfast.

The evening breeze carried a heat wave, and mosquitoes came in like cakes. The hungry and thirsty iron ladies held on with the perseverance of unity and remained motionless.

The night becomes darker and darker.

Nearing the early hours of the morning, a Santana car, which was just launched this year, drove in from the entrance of the compound. The original route was probably going straight to the dormitory area. Suddenly, I noticed something. The red taillights were on, and the rear window glass was on. After descending, a tired face poked out and asked the security officer at the entrance of the hospital.

"Isn't this nonsense? Go, tell them, let them go back first, and deal with anything at work tomorrow."

A comrade from the security department came to Zhang Xinmei and others and told them that this was Mayor Zhu's order.

Zhang Xinmei looked at the black Santana car, remained silent, and shook her head.

The Santana car restarted and drove towards the dormitory area.

Time passed quietly, and at dawn, in the silent city hall compound, in the ears of the crumbling Zhang Xinmei and others, the sound of lonely trotting footsteps came from far and near.

Not long after, a middle-aged man wearing dark sportswear appeared in front of them.

The latter trotted to the front of their untidy phalanx. Using the light from the white fish belly on the horizon, he looked at them and couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"I'm really impressed by you!

"Follow me and go to the cafeteria. I want to see what big deal you are doing and how reasonable you are!"

It was okay for Zhang Xinmei and others not to move, but with a sudden movement, several people almost fell down. Everyone supported each other and staggered to the city cafeteria following the middle-aged man doing morning exercises.
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Jin Jiang Hotel, eighth floor, room 812.

Jingle Bell--

The ringing of the phone on the bedside table woke Li Jiankun up, and he finally opened his sleepy eyes. The sun had not yet risen outside the window.

"Hey?"

"Mr. Li, we, we got the approval!" Zhang Xinmei's excited and weak voice came from the other end of the phone.

Li Jiankun glanced at the sky outside the window again, and said with a smile in a solemn tone: "Thank you for your hard work."

(End of this chapter)