1986: Old Stories in Northeast China

"Leader, what are you going to do?"

Chen Tiezhu said helplessly.

"Just follow me, it's over. What's the point of asking around?" Gao Xiaoguang said casually.

"Xiao Liu, the afternoon visit to the county forestry farm will be postponed to tomorrow. No need to call the driver. I'll go with Chen Tiezhu. You answer the phone at home."

After saying that, he ignored the messy secretary Xiao Liu in the wind and continued to walk out.

Chen Tiezhu could only give him a helpless look. He still didn't know where Gao Xiaoguang was going to take him.

It seemed that he couldn't go to the machinery factory today, and Director Cui had to wait for another day.

And this scene was immediately spread in the county government.

If Chen Tiezhu wasn't a favorite of the leader, who was he?

Not even Xiao Liu was taken with him, and he followed Chen Tiezhu, which already explained the problem.

"Leader, where are we going?" Chen Tiezhu asked helplessly after getting in the car.

"Let's go to the paper mill." Gao Xiaoguang said with a smile.

"You're right. I do have a lot of work to do. The most critical thing at the moment is these enterprises in the county."

"Leader, are we crossing the line? The paper mill is not an enterprise in the county. Even if it is in our county, it is under the jurisdiction of the city." Chen Tiezhu was even more helpless.

He didn't know if Gao Xiaoguang was a little crazy for the sake of performance. Such a good enterprise as the paper mill still needs him to worry about it?

"What's wrong with the enterprises in the city? Aren't the workers recruited in our county? If there is a problem, our county will be the biggest affected." Gao Xiaoguang said.

"Why are you so hesitant? If I tell you to go, you go. You don't have to drive into them. We can just take a look from a distance outside. It's not a formal investigation."

What else can Chen Tiezhu say? Just be a driver honestly.

He has never been to the paper mill. It is in the north of the county and not close to the county. If he drove, it would take more than 20 minutes.

"Leader, is it okay here?" Chen Tiezhu asked after the car stopped.

Gao Xiaoguang nodded, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, "Just look here, the terrain is relatively high here, see if you can find any problems."

Chen Tiezhu glanced at him, and then looked around.

The entire paper mill covers a large area, and at a glance, it seems that there is no edge.

What caught his attention was the towering chimney and the rows of reed stacks on the material yard.

"Leader, if you look at it this way, you really can't see anything. I know that there are some people working in the paper mill in our town, and they are also assigned workers." Chen Tiezhu said after looking for a while.

"Really can't see it? That only means you don't pay attention." Gao Xiaoguang said with a smile.

Chen Tiezhu was even more helpless. He really didn't know about this aspect?

But Gao Xiaoguang said so, so he had to continue looking.

After looking around, his brows furrowed, and he actually found some minor problems.

"Did you see it?" Gao Xiaoguang asked.

"Leader, I don't know if what I said is right, but these reed stacks give me a feeling that something is wrong." Chen Tiezhu said.

"If you look closely, the reed stacks here are a little different in color. Are those that are brighter and darker last year's reeds? Are those on the right new reeds?"

Gao Xiaoguang gave a thumbs up, "I knew you had a vision. Yes, these on the right are indeed new reeds. The one on the left is not only from last year, but also from the year before."

"Although the paper mill is still profitable, it has also declined a lot compared to previous years. Coupled with some chaotic problems in their management, the paper mill will be finished in a few years."

"Our county machinery factory can also be said to be unable to adapt to the new era during the reform process. development trend. But here at the paper mill, the human problem is bigger. "

"From what I know, this time of year is actually the time when reeds are constantly delivered. That little train has several trips a day."

"Look at it now, it's so quiet here, where is it? Does this mean that their current raw material reserves have reached a bottleneck, and that their sales have problems?"

"Leader, don't you think it's wrong? If you say that you are adapting to the new market sales model, this is understandable. But if it's the chaos of human management, unless you receive a report here." Chen Tiezhu said with a smile.

"You are pretending to be confused with me. The warehouses of all companies follow the principle of first-in-first-out. I don't understand papermaking, I guess it's also better to make paper with fresh reeds, right?" Gao Xiaoguang said.

"Look at them hereThe reed stacks beside the paper mill look well-organized. Didn't you see that there are still reeds from the year before last? How bad must the sales be to allow them to have so much raw material inventory? "

"The labor teams dispatched to the paper mill by various towns in our county involve 863 people. If the situation of the paper mill continues to deteriorate, these people will have no source of income."

"And behind each of them, almost everyone has a family. Even if they are not married, their income is almost the main source of income for their families."

"The county's machinery factories, textile factories, and canning factories are not very profitable now, and only the winery can still support it."

"If we have no other way to revitalize these enterprises in the county, and the paper mill can no longer support it, what kind of situation do you think the county will face?"

"What else do you need to think about? It's not just the laborers who were dispatched here, but this residential area here will also be ruined, right? "Chen Tiezhu pinched his brows.

He had never been involved in such affairs before, but following Gao Xiaoguang's train of thought, he could see the clues.

Gao Xiaoguang smiled and nodded, "This is my biggest worry. Although this town is the smallest in our county and has a small population, the residents here still rely more on the paper mill."

"Now their lives are very good, even better than those of the residents in our county. But the current paper mill is just a showpiece. What consequences will it cause when it can't hold on?"

"They are still under the jurisdiction of the city, and the county has no chance to intervene. And even if we are given the opportunity, we don't have the ability."

"The county's fiscal revenue is so little, and there are too many places to spend money. It's a drop in the bucket. What do you think we should do about this matter?"

Chen Tiezhu grinned, and a terrible thought came to his mind. Is Gao Xiaoguang too bold?