"Wait a minute! What do you mean, we have been making small farm tools for decades and we will no longer make them?"
Deputy Director Wang looked over with cold eyes.
Li Xiucheng nodded: "At least for now, we can't do it anymore."
"This is not a joke!"
Deputy Factory Director Wang blushed and said: "Our hardware factory has set a path from the beginning of its establishment to produce small farm tools to help the development of the agricultural economy! If you do this, will we still be Tao County Hardware Factory?!"
"Old Wang is right. With such a commotion, the nature of our hardware factory has changed."
"It's a bit nonsense to lose the signboard of small farm tools and change it to wood processing."
"Also, if this matter is really done and the superior leaders investigate, who will bear the responsibility?"
"Director Chen, please say a few words..."
A group of people from the hardware factory started to shout again with strong resistance.
"Everyone please be quiet."
Chen Weiguo's face was uncertain, and he hesitated and said: "Manager Li, is your approach too big a step? This is a major event involving corporate transformation."
"Director Chen, fellow factory leaders, I know that this matter will be difficult for everyone to understand and accept for a while."
"But my original intention was not really to completely transform the hardware factory industry, but to solve an urgent need."
"The various problems faced by hardware factories now can all be said in one word: money!"
"I have said before that it is better to seek help from others than to ask for yourself. According to the current situation, it is very difficult for hardware factories to seek financial support from Jiangxi or other channels."
"Rather than letting Director Chen and other factory leaders lose face every day and beg for help, why not give it a try yourself!"
"If we can make some changes in a short period of time, resume production, and produce something that can make money, wouldn't it be better if we can then continue to return to the production of agricultural tools and upgrade the industry to produce more advanced agricultural tools?"
Speaking of which,
Li Xiucheng looked out the window of the conference room: "Everyone can look outside. There are hundreds of workers in the factory doing nothing and wasting their time. To put it bluntly, if the hardware factory collapses, everyone here will have their own escape route, but what about them? ? What about the families behind them? Even if it is not for the hardware factory, we must find a way out for them and the families behind them!"
"Li Xiucheng! What do you mean by this!!"
Deputy Director Wang got excited, slapped the table and stood up: "Stop using high-sounding words to scaremonger! We are a state-owned enterprise! Who has seen a state-owned enterprise collapse?"
Li Xiucheng's eyes were bright: "No state-owned enterprises have collapsed now, but there are many state-owned enterprises that are on the verge of bankruptcy!"
Deputy Director Wang sneered: "The situation in our hardware factory is not as serious as you said. We have plenty of products and have several warehouses. As long as we lower the price appropriately, we will make plenty of money after selling!"
"How much is the appropriate price reduction? 30%? Or 50%?"
Li Xiucheng said solemnly: "Even if you fall to a loss, you can dump the inventory, and then what? Continue to invest in production inventory? Then dump it at a loss?"
"That...that's our own business! It's not up to you, an outsider, to dictate!"
Deputy Factory Director Wang was already blushing, and his words were already at a disadvantage.
"Yes, you are the leader of the factory, and the fate of hundreds of workers in this factory is also in your hands. But if you, the leaders, don't dare to take a little responsibility and take a step forward, who can you expect to help? !”
Li Xiucheng is not a person who doesn't know how to adapt.
But he knew very well that conventional logic did not make sense for people with such fixed thinking as Deputy Factory Director Wang.
Perhaps the hardware factory can survive with support from all parties.
But in a few years, with the arrival of the wave of layoffs in 1992, state-owned enterprises like Taoxian Hardware Factory will inevitably be the first to fall!
for a time,
The two people's point-to-point argument made the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly tense.
Deputy Factory Director Wang held it in for a long time, but could not think of anything to rebut.
The leaders of other hardware factories also remained silent without saying a word.
Zhao Xueyao's eyes widened,
She really didn't expect that Li Xiucheng was so courageous that he would dare to say these "disrespectful" words in front of a group of leaders.
He even silenced a whole table of people.
Recalling the embarrassment the other party had last night with his face covered in mud,
The thieves who fight secretly at the factory gate,
Can't believe it's the same person.
For a moment, Zhao Xueyao couldn't help but become more curious about Li Xiucheng.
"Dear factory directors and leaders."
At this time, in the conference room that was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop, Jiang Meihua, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly stood up: "What Manager Li said makes sense. I think we should try it."
"Xiao Jiang, this is not a technical matter, so you should not get involved more."
Chen Weiguo waved his hand and motioned Jiang Meihua to sit down.
"Director Chen, I am a technician in the factory, so I am more aware of the extent of the problems our products are facing now."
"In terms of costs, I have reduced costs to the maximum extent. Although we have inventory in several warehouses, we still have a large amount of raw material debt that has not been repaid. If we have to fight a price war with those small workshops, we can't afford it. We will only lose money. die."
"In addition, I agree with what Manager Li just said. I am an ordinary technician in the factory. I don't want to continue to live like this. The more than 480 other workers and sisters in the factory don't want to continue to live like this either."
"We want to fight hard and take a step forward!"
As a young technician who was just assigned to the factory, Jiang Meihua's words really have little weight in front of the leaders.
She is petite and pretty, and she doesn't even have a loud voice.
But at this moment, his face was full of determination.
"Jiang Meihua! You mean that our factory leaders are just messing around, right?"
Deputy Factory Director Wang, as Jiang Meihua's direct leader, immediately reprimanded him loudly.
"Don't make any noise!"
Chen Weiguo, who was nearly sixty years old, looked gloomy.
His eyes swept over Jiang Meihua, and then over the other young cadres participating in the meeting one by one.
Yes.
He has reached the age of retirement.
It was his best choice to complete the final journey step by step.
Any wrong move would ruin most of his life experience.
But there is still a sense of energy in these young people.
After thinking for a long time, Chen Weiguo slowly spoke: "Manager Li, when it comes to industrial transformation, this matter involves too much. I think it is better to let the workers make their own decisions. If you can convince them, then I will support your work."
"Okay! Without further ado, please ask Director Chen to convene a workers' meeting immediately."
Li Xiucheng was determined,
Immediately, Chen Weiguo arranged for someone to notify him.
"Old Chen, this..."
What else does Deputy Director Wang want to say.
Chen Weiguo waved his hand and interrupted the other party: "I know what you are going to say, Lao Wang, but I don't want this hardware factory to fail in my hands. If there is any responsibility, I will bear it."
"Since you said so, Old Chen, then I have no objection."
Deputy Director Wang turned around and left the conference room angrily.
