Deyang, Dongqi Group.
This was Kuchma's first time coming to China, but there was nothing novel in his heart. He only felt incomparable despair.
Just a few months ago, China took away most of the shares of Motor Sich Factory through a model that hid huge loopholes. It even launched a poison pill plan to induce Motor Siq Factory to make a series of wrong decisions. The financial situation of the entire group has been plunged into an abyss.
The US shares were forced to withdraw, and Dongqi took advantage of the situation to completely acquire Motor Sich.
Their actions were less than two weeks faster than the time when UKR issued the banned list.
Just two weeks away.
In just two weeks, he can keep this company that belongs to UKR.
But now, it's too late.
After being completely controlled, even UKR officials had to compromise. Otherwise, the wolf-like engineers of Dongqi Group would really dare to use the poison pill plan to completely destroy the entire Motor Sich and then empty out everything there. equipment and all data.
Not to mention the equipment, even the personnel, they are ready to pack up and take away.
In just one year, the number of scientific research and other related personnel from Motor Siqi who came to Dongqi for "business trips" reached an astonishing 900.
These people were scattered around the Dongqi Group factory, and after a long period of adaptation, they have integrated into the life here.
And he was the last batch of engineers to come to Dongqi Group.
He originally wanted to resign, but when he thought about the deteriorating economic environment in the country and the three children at home, he felt that he actually had no choice.
So, he had no choice but to follow Meng Qinghao's arrangement and fly here with his family.
As soon as he got off the plane, he was arranged to sit in a commercial vehicle specially designed to welcome him. The professional staff of the Customer Engineering Department took good care of him. In addition, with the welcome ceremony decorated with lights, colorful lights, and noisy gongs and drums, he finally felt relieved. Come.
At the same time, the colleague who had arranged to receive him was already waiting at the door, and immediately greeted him as soon as he saw his figure.
"Kuchma!"
"Lermontov!"
Kuchma quickly took two steps, stepped forward and held Lermontov's hand.
"How was it? Did the journey go well? Is the resting place good?"
Lermontov was smiling, but Kuchma subconsciously thought that his smile was fake.
Yes, being far away from home and struggling to gain a foothold in a completely unfamiliar environment, how could such a process be enjoyable?
His current performance is just to leave a good impression in the eyes of those Chinese people so that his life can become better, right?
Thinking of this, Kuchma sighed and replied with pity:
"Luckily, everything went well on the road."
"But it's really hard for you to be here."
However, his sincere expression was completely misunderstood by Lermontov.
At this moment, what he was thinking about was:
Indeed, the time in these few months is really tight. Many times I have to work overtime until after ten o'clock, even on weekends.
Fortunately, the project has come to an end now, and I should be quite leisurely in the next few days.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, maybe I can go to Chengdu.
If your wife and children are clamoring to see pandas, then go ahead.
Just when I think about the fatigue of the journey, I feel that it is really hard.
But how did Kuchma know the situation here?
Did he already pay attention to the progress here when he was in China?
Sure enough, he is a leader. With such vision and foresight, he should have realized long ago that cooperating with Dongqi and coming here is the right choice, right?
Lermontov smiled gratefully and replied:
"It's not hard work, our career is valuable."
"You're here this time, maybe we can reach a higher level soon."
Hearing this, Kuchma immediately became alert.
He realized that this might be Lermontov sending a code message to him.
Sure enough, in this unfree country, even speaking is subject to surveillance, and any dissatisfaction must not be shown.
So, he nodded slightly and said:
"Yes, I hope our career will go further."
While he was talking, Lermontov had already taken his luggage and led Kuchma and his family towards the park.
As he walked, he introduced:
"This is the main factory area of Dongqi Group. They have three more factories like this across the country."
"It's huge! And, I heard that a new one will be built this year to accommodate the equipment taken over from Motor Sich."
"At that time, maybe we will still have the opportunity to use those familiar equipment."
A disdainful smile appeared on the corner of Lermontov's mouth, and he thought to himself:
As for those devices, I really don’t want to use them now.
Too rough, too old, and some are even completely behind the times. If it weren’t for the fact that there are still some functions on those devices that have not yet been implemented, I am afraid that they will not be accepted at all, but will be directly dismantled into parts extraction technology. Bar
Dongqi's new equipment is better.
Comprehensive electronic informatization, simple operation, high accuracy, and most importantly, data is recorded throughout the process.
No longer do you have to hold a pen and paper to record while operating. Thinking about it, that is an extremely inefficient way of working.
It's great to have money
His expression became a little emotional, but this emotion changed in Kuchma's eyes.
It turns out that my colleagues don’t even have access to the most advanced equipment here?
Judging from Lermontov's performance, he must have begun to miss those familiar "steel comrades".
really sad
So he opened his mouth to comfort him:
"It will definitely be used, don't worry."
Lermontov gave him a strange look, but didn't think much about it and continued:
"Just walking down this path is the staff dormitory area. Logically speaking, you should be allocated a single-family house. After all, you are a senior engineer."
"However, there have been too many people coming recently, and the residence cannot be accommodated, so you have been temporarily arranged to be next door to me."
"Although it's a little narrow, it should be enough."
Kuchiman gave a favor and said nothing.
He had already been mentally prepared for such a situation.
To put it bluntly, now I am just a "prisoner" after the failure of the business war. Since I am a prisoner, what right do I have to choose the cell where I am imprisoned?
Yes, that's pretty good.
He only hopes that there are two beds in his residence. After all, the children have grown up and can no longer sleep with their parents.
The few people continued to walk forward. Kuchma's wife and children were very curious about the new things in front of them. They were used to seeing the same gray buildings at UKR. When they first saw the red walls and green tiles in the dormitory area, they felt There is an indescribable beauty.
Kuchma's youngest son ran around here and there to look around. Lermontov did not stop him, but Kuchma called him back sternly.
He didn't want to make a mistake because of his son on the first day he came here.
He must be responsible for his wife and children.
Not long after, several people arrived at the destination dormitory. Looking at the brand-new building in front of them, Kuchma was a little confused.
This condition doesn’t seem too bad?
Could it be that several families live in one room?
It shouldn't be
As he walked into the corridor, something even more surprising happened to him.
There is actually an elevator here.
Kuchma looked at Lermontov in confusion and asked:
"Is this a dormitory building?"
"yes!"
Lermontov replied matter-of-factly.
"Why is there an elevator?"
"This is a newly built dormitory with an elevator. Of course, the price is also high. The monthly rent is an average of 500 yuan more."
"Oh, I see."
Kuchma said understandingly.
It turns out that this is the way to recover the wages that have been sent out.
This detail already reflects their ambition, but I don't know what other aspects are like.
Everyone walked into the elevator and soon reached the sixth floor and opened the door.
Kuchma stared blankly at the spacious, bright room with complete appliances, and asked tentatively:
"Which room are we staying in?"
"Which room? Uh, you can live in the master bedroom. The two children can have a second bedroom each."
"This set of rooms is all ours?"
Kuchma asked in disbelief.
"To be precise, it's temporary placement. You don't have to pay rent for the first three months after you arrive, but after three months, you will have to pay rent of 2,700 yuan per month."
"Of course, if you want to move to a villa area, you can do so when the quota becomes available, but it is more expensive. A better one may even cost more than 10,000 yuan a month."
More than ten thousand.
Kuchma recited this number silently in his mind.
If we look purely at basic salary, he would need to work at UKR for two months to save enough for one month's salary here.
It is indeed not low.
And the salary here cannot be much higher than UKR.
"I still won't move."
He spoke, secretly beginning to worry about his future life.
But looking at Lermontov, he didn't mean to be embarrassed at all. After quickly putting away his luggage, he said to Kuchma:
"The time is right now, let's go have lunch first. When we come back in the afternoon, you can have a good rest."
"Or, if you are interested, you can come with me to see our institute offices and factories."
After hesitating for a moment, Kuchma said:
"Then let's eat first and then go see the factory - do we accept rubles here?"
"No charge, but meals are free."
"Understood."
Another insidious way to win people's hearts.
I'm afraid, the meals they serve won't be very good either.
Kuchma couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of his well-fed life at UKR.
However, his sadness did not last long.
When he arrived at the canteen and saw the various kinds of food, he was shocked.
How do you feel that this place is different from what you imagined? ?
He is considered an upper-level manager in Motorsic and is very familiar with the operation of a company.
He also clearly understands the truth: whether a company or a factory can continue to operate depends on its food.
After the poison pill plan was launched, Motorsic's meals dropped again and again, and in the end they only had the simplest bread and bacon, but here... everything is available!
"Are you sure it's free?"
"Of course, why not free? It's free for everyone, including the workers."
"Dongguan Automobile is a state-owned enterprise, and this is their benefit - well, you even get paid for overtime work."
"All right."
Kuchma replied in a low voice.
He began to feel that things were different.
And next, something even more surprising happened to him.
Several engineers with Chinese faces saw Lermontov and came over to say hello with smiles on their faces. Then they sat next to him naturally and chatted with him in English.
The content is very simple, nothing more than the getting hotter weather, constant overtime work, a few days of vacation, and plans to see pandas.
There was a most palpable rapport on everyone's face.
How can this be?
Don't they exclude Motorsic's engineers?
Kuchma always remained silent, and even if someone spoke to him, he would just talk casually.
It wasn't until after eating that he couldn't wait to ask:
"Who were those people just now?"
"Ah? My colleagues, two of them are good friends, invited me to have hot pot at home on the weekend. Do you know about hot pot? You can come too!"
"I won't go."
"Why not go? The friends here are very enthusiastic."
friend.
Kuchma silently pondered the meaning of this word, and he felt that a certain prejudice in his heart seemed to be overturned.
After lunch, Lermontov sent someone to send Kuchma's wife and children back to the dormitory, while he took Lermontov to the factory area.
After passing through many gates, Kuchma, who was full of expectations, finally saw the factory he had longed for.
He always wanted this place to be dilapidated and old.
He hoped that the workers here would be wearing greasy overalls and holding notched wrenches and crowbars.
He wished the lights here were dim and the air here was rotten.
However, with each pass, his hopes were dashed.
Until finally, when the spacious factory building appeared in front of him, something in his heart was completely shattered.
Clean, tidy, brand-new machine tools visible to the naked eye, screens and indicator lights full of technology, and workers who look either nervous, happy, or occasionally angry, but absolutely full of life.
This is not the Chinese factory he had in mind at all.
Shouldn't this kind of scene appear in Lockheed Martin, General Motors, and Pratt & Whitney? ? ?
How would it appear here! ?
But Lermontov on the side did not notice at all.
He was also introducing the latest equipment enthusiastically.
"This is a machine tool just imported from Germany. It's really good. It took us two full months to fully understand it."
"It's very complicated, but I heard that the Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering has started to imitate it. Maybe, by next year or the year after, we can use our own machine tools."
our own.
Kuchma followed Lermontov numbly through the factory. After passing the last door, a huge thing appeared in front of him.
It was a huge gas turbine.
Through the thick observation window glass, Kuchma stared blankly at the unique pearl in the history of modern industry.
His expression was nothing but shock.
When did they actually create such a thing? ?
Lermontov also lay in front of the glass and said proudly:
“This is what we’re almost a year into.”
"AGT110."
“This is the most powerful gas turbine in the world, 110MW!”
"I'm so lucky. There is another ignition experiment today, so I can see it."
Just as he was speaking, the AGT110 suddenly ignited on the test bench.
The majestic roar penetrated Kuchma's eardrums.
He did not look at the astonishing engine, but looked at Lermontov who was intoxicated in it.
He finally understood what the other person meant.
Our career is valuable
