Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 544 Li Weidong takes action

Several old subordinates gathered in Zhang Tao's office.

"Mr. Zhang, what's going on? Is Li Weidong unwilling to pay this year's year-end bonus?" Minister Sun, who is in charge of production, asked.

Zhang Tao shook his head: "Li Weidong didn't agree immediately. He said he would think about it. Let's wait for two days. If he doesn't agree, then find a way to stop the workshop for a few days."

"Mr. Zhang, is Li Weidong trying to delay time and play tricks?" Minister Sun asked.

Next to him, the most senior Minister Liu said half-jokingly: "Maybe Li Weidong is thinking of a way to fire us all! I don't care, anyway, I am old and will retire soon, but you are still young.

!

It’s not easy to find a job in this age. If the older guys are better off, they can at least do some hard work. For example, at your age, if you are high or low, you will not be able to get a job, and there are seniors and juniors, so it may not be possible.

There is a suitable job!”

"Old Liu, please stop scaring them." Zhang Tao continued: "We are all leaders of the company, how can we just fire them! Fire us all, and the factory will stop production tomorrow."

"But what if Li Weidong fights to the death?" Minister Sun asked with a worried look.

"Just for one year's year-end bonus, the whole company went bankrupt? Li Weidong is not a fool, how could he do such a thing!" Zhang Tao snorted coldly, and then said: "What's more, I have been prepared for it."

"Mr. Zhang, tell us what preparations you have made, and we will feel at ease." Minister Sun said.

"I have quietly sent word to the city that our Fukang Engineering Group may undergo large-scale layoffs, including a major shake-up of management."

Zhang Tao smiled slightly and explained: "Our Fukang Engineering Group has certain special characteristics. Although we are a joint-stock company, we were restructured from a state-owned enterprise after all.

You all know that the loader factory was about to close down. After the restructuring, the company was revitalized, and its profits have been booming in recent years. Therefore, the city has always regarded our company as a model and role model for successful enterprise reform.

In recent times, the reform of enterprises has been a key task of the country. Among other things, in Qinghe City, a large number of enterprises have completed restructuring.

Now is a critical moment for enterprise reform. How can the city let us, an advanced model of enterprise reform, have problems? If we have problems, then the general direction of enterprise reform will be questioned. So at this time, Li Weidong dare not tell us

He wants to take the overall situation into consideration!"

"I see, Mr. Zhang is very considerate!"

"Yes, Mr. Zhang has great foresight and takes three steps at a time. How can Li Weidong fight with us?"

"I knew it would be right to follow Mr. Zhang."

Everyone started to flatter him one after another.

Zhang Tao laughed with great satisfaction and said at the same time: "You are all my old subordinates. You have followed me for so many years. How could I ignore you! Just relax. As long as I, Zhang Tao, am here, I will not treat you badly."

Yours!"

…

At this time, Li Weidong was in Zhang Jiagang's office, discussing the construction of the logistics park.

Clothing wholesale malls have been opened, and wholesale of goods is inseparable from logistics. In Li Weidong's plan, the next step is to build a logistics park in Ershilibao to achieve one-stop wholesale and logistics.

"Chairman Li, the matter of the logistics park has been decided for the time being. We will hold a meeting in the city to discuss it. I will inform you of the result when we have it," Zhang Jiagang said.

Li Weidong nodded: "Thank you, Secretary Zhang. I'm waiting for your good news. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

"Chairman Li, don't leave yet, I really have other things to do." Zhang Jiagang continued: "I heard that Fukang Engineering Company is going to lay off employees?"

Li Weidong was stunned and thought to himself, he had just planned to make a major change in the leadership team of Fukang Engineering, so why did Zhang Jiagang bring up the matter of layoffs?

"I am still planning this matter myself and have never mentioned it to anyone. How did Zhang Jiagang know about it?" Li Weidong was confused, and then he asked:

"Normal personnel changes in the company occur every year, but they do not lead to layoffs. I wonder where Secretary Zhang heard that we were going to lay off employees?"

"It's good that there are no layoffs. This is not the case recently. Many companies in our city are undergoing reforms. There are often layoffs here, and news of layoffs spread there. I can't tell whether this is true or false!"

Zhang Jiagang smiled slightly and continued, "Since the restructuring of Fukang Engineering, under your leadership, Chairman Li, its profits have been increasing day by day, and it is now a well-known large enterprise in Qinghe City.

Over the years, many companies in our city have begun to carry out reforms, some successful and some unsuccessful. However, there are only a few that can develop and grow like Fukang Engineering.

Your Fukang Project is the benchmark for enterprise reform in Qinghe City. To be honest, many enterprises in our city that are undergoing restructuring or are about to undergo restructuring regard you as a role model.

The purpose of the state's promotion of enterprise reform is to help loss-making enterprises get out of trouble, enhance their vitality, and improve their economic benefits. The minimum requirement is to allow employees to keep their jobs and have a living.

If even you, the benchmark of enterprise reform, start to lay off employees, then it will be difficult for our city's enterprise reform work to continue. Then I will use it to gain face and promote the restructuring of enterprises?

Therefore, Chairman Li, even if Fukang Engineering really wants to lay off employees, I hope it can be postponed for a while until the enterprise reform work in our city is almost advanced, and we can lay off employees as we see fit, with the overall situation in mind."

Li Weidong nodded: "I understand that enterprise reform is conducive to the adjustment and transformation of the national economy and is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Of course I will fully support it."

…

Sitting in the car on the way back, Li Weidong frowned and began to think about the whole story.

This thing is such a coincidence that a smart person will know that someone is behind it.

At this moment, Li Weidong's cell phone rang, and it was a call from "Infernal Affairs".

"Chairman, several leaders just came to see Mr. Zhang again. Director Liu from the Quality Inspection Department, Director Sun from the Production Department..."

After Wu Jiandao finished reporting the names, he continued, "These people come to Mr. Zhang for the year-end bonus. They are also worried that if the year-end bonus fails, they will be fired by you in the end.

However, Zhang Tao told them not to worry, saying that he had already made arrangements and you dare not fire them. Zhang Tao said that he had spread the news to the city that our company was going to lay off employees.

Zhang Tao also said that enterprise reform is now an important task for the city, and our company is a role model for enterprise reform. Therefore, the city will definitely not let us lay off employees."

This report from Infernal Affairs made Li Weidong feel better instantly.

"Well done, your news is very important." After praising him, he asked Infernal Affairs to continue monitoring Zhang Tao's every move.

"Fire them all? Fortunately, they can think of it. This Zhang Tao underestimates me too much. How could I do such a stupid thing!" Li Weidong said to himself.

Many people think that when a boss fires an employee, it is just a matter of one sentence, just like what is shown on TV: "You are fired", and the other person can pack up and leave.

But in fact, the dismissal of senior executives has always been a problem that plagues large companies.

Regardless of their abilities, most of those who can get into senior management positions have deep foundations and have a relatively large influence in the company.

Moreover, as senior executives stay in a job for a long time and become more and more familiar with the position, they will also intentionally or unintentionally cultivate their own cronies and even create their own small circle.

Therefore, senior corporate officials cannot be fired casually. Many large companies will hire companies that specialize in dismissing employees to fire senior executives. Sometimes, if the two parties cannot agree on terms, they may even need to resort to judicial arbitration.

In other words, in order to fire an executive, you have to go to court to litigate.

Fukang Engineering was restructured from a loader factory, and the management team are all Zhang Tao's old subordinates. They are no longer a small circle in Fukang Engineering, but a big circle!

In this case, Li Weidong, of course you would not use the method of direct dismissal. It is so simple and crude, and it seems too lacking in management skills.

What's more, Li Weidong still needs to take the overall situation into consideration, and Fukang Engineering must continue to be an advanced model for corporate reform.

Li Weidong thought for a moment and sighed softly: "Looks like I need to ask my uncle for help!"

…

A few days later, a document from the Northwest Autonomous Region arrived in Qinghe City. According to this document, Fukang Engineering Company became a key enterprise for poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and west.

The East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation was a strategic arrangement put forward in the early days of reform and opening up. The country's strategy at that time was that coastal areas should speed up opening up and develop rapidly, thereby driving better development in the hinterland and finally achieving all-round development.

After entering the 1990s, with the deepening of opening up, the differences between the eastern and western regions gradually became prominent, and the central government began to make institutional arrangements for poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west.

In 1992, the state proposed that economically developed areas should take various forms to help poor areas accelerate development.

By 1994, the State Council began planning to help poor provinces in the west develop their economies in large cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as more developed coastal provinces such as Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian.

In 1996, the central government made a major decision on "East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration" and identified 9 eastern provinces and cities and 4 cities under separate state planning to carry out poverty alleviation cooperation with 10 western provinces and regions. The East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration was officially launched.

There is a TV series related to poverty alleviation, "Mountains and Seas", which tells the story of Fujian counterparts helping Ningxia during the East-West poverty alleviation cooperation.

In Handong Province, where Li Weidong is located, the target of counterpart assistance is the Northwest Autonomous Region.

Uncle He has already gone to the northwest to take up his post. At the same time, he also received a large sum of money from Li Weidong to build dormitories for primary schools. With this wave of political achievements in education, Uncle He was able to gain a firm foothold.

This document made Fukang Engineering Company a key enterprise in East-West poverty alleviation cooperation, and it was naturally written by Uncle He.

For things like poverty alleviation, if one more company helps, it will be more powerful. If the company is willing to spend money to help the development of the western region, it can be labeled as a "key poverty alleviation enterprise", as much as it wants.

In the conference room of Fukang Engineering, the secretary handed copies of the documents to the company's vice presidents and department heads.

Li Weidong took the document and said, "The East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration is a key project of the country, and it is also a good thing that benefits the country and the people! The East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration has been implemented for two years now, and a variety of collaboration methods have been gradually explored.

Government assistance, enterprise cooperation, social assistance, and talent support are all major forms of collaboration. As an enterprise, we naturally have to participate in enterprise cooperation.

I am honored that Fukang Engineering can participate in the East-West poverty alleviation cooperation and become a key poverty alleviation enterprise. I believe that you, like me, will also be honored.

So next, we need to carry out counterpart assistance to the western region. Through counterpart assistance to the poor areas in the western region, we must promote the grand strategy of regional coordinated development, coordinated development, and common development!

Through this collaboration, we will strengthen regional cooperation, optimize industrial layout, expand new space and new layout, and ultimately achieve the big goal of helping first and then getting rich, and everyone getting rich together!"

Li Weidong spoke impassionedly, and everyone applauded generously.

As the applause died down, Li Weidong continued, "Next, we must conscientiously implement counterpart assistance. This is a national development plan, so we must not only help poor areas in the west with funds, but also with talent.

To help the poor areas in the west.

Therefore, our Fukang Engineering Group will send elite soldiers to the impoverished areas in the west to take root there sincerely and complete this arduous and great task.

Dear comrades, it is a rare honor to be able to join the great project of East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation to help the poor people in the West get rid of poverty and become rich!

Comrades, the time has come to test everyone’s ideological consciousness. I hope that all comrades can actively sign up and go to the west to contribute to the country’s poverty alleviation work!”

Li Weidong said and looked at everyone in the conference room. Everyone had their heads lowered and no one answered at all.

If you go to a poor place like the west to provide counterpart support and take root, isn’t that going to suffer!

These people are used to being pampered and well-off, so no one is willing to take the initiative to go to the west.

What's more, if you stay at Fukang Engineering, you will be a leading cadre and have some power in your hands. If you go to the west, you will have nothing!

Seeing that no one spoke, Li Weidong said with a smile, "It seems that all comrades are quite humble and hope to give this precious honor to others."

After hearing what Li Weidong said, everyone couldn't help but complain: What a bullshit humility! It's obvious that no one wants to go! If it was really an honor, they would have gone crazy!

Just listen to Li Weidong continue to say: "Going to the west to provide targeted poverty alleviation support is, after all, a very important task. On a larger scale, it is to complete the national strategy, and on a smaller scale, it is not to embarrass our company.

Therefore, we must send a few comrades with outstanding abilities. In this way, we can not only convince the public internally, but also successfully complete the poverty alleviation work externally.

I don’t think it’s better to just select people from among the advanced workers in recent years. Our company’s advanced workers must be top-notch in terms of personal abilities and professional skills, and they can definitely take on this big job!”

As Li Weidong spoke, he looked at Minister Sun of the Production Department and said, "Minister Sun, I remember that you were our company's advanced worker last year, right? I personally issued the certificate of honor to you at that time!"

After hearing this, a "mask of horror" suddenly appeared on Minister Sun's face.

Zhang Tao next to him realized that Li Weidong had made a move!

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