Material Empire

Qin Hai and Heizi left the hotel together with Liu Jie. Liu Jie raised his hand and waved a jeep out of nowhere and stopped in front of them. Liu Jie greeted with gestures: "Come here, Mr. Qin, you sit in the front."

In the minds of many local cadres, the sub seat in front of the car is a more honorable position, and it has always been reserved for leaders or VIPs. Of course, a real "fan" boss would not take this kind of position. This position should belong to the secretary or bodyguard. Qin Hai didn't accept Liu Jie's kindness, but said with a smile: "Director Liu, let's sit in the back together so that we can chat and let Heizi sit in the front."

"That's okay, that's okay, then Boss Qin invites you first." Liu Jie graciously opened the back door, asked Qin Hai to get in the car first, and then got into the car by himself.

A few small movements made Qin Hai feel something strange. When he came back to Jintang last time, although people like Yu Kexiu and Liu Jie called him leaders one by one, they didn't have much respect for them in their bones, especially in some details. The meaning of contempt. But this time, Qin Hai could see that Liu Jie's humility towards him came from the heart, maybe Liu Jie didn't have anything to ask of him, but psychologically, Liu Jie was already in a weak position.

A phoenix with shedding hair is not as good as a chicken. The saying is true.

The driver drove the jeep on the streets of Jintang. It was evening, and the light signs of the shops on both sides of the road were already lit up. Looking from a distance, it felt like a feast for the eyes. One after another, rickshaws and jeeps passed by, and the hunched figure of the tricycle driver was in stark contrast to the street scene.

Sitting in the car, they couldn't talk about any serious topics. Qin Hai and Liu Jie could only talk about popular gossip. Liu Jie focused on inquiring about what Qin Hai had done in the past few years. Qin Hai didn't want to reveal too much, but simply talked about the thermal spraying machine, and emphasized that the cost of this product is very high, so the profit is very meager.

After driving for ten minutes, the car stopped in front of a restaurant with an inconspicuous appearance. Liu Jie opened the door and got out of the car, then called Qin Hai to get off, and at the same time introduced: "President Qin, look, how about we just choose this restaurant? This restaurant doesn't look very good, but it's our The most unique restaurant in Jintang.”

Qin Hai took a closer look, and saw that this restaurant was indeed not high-grade, and it was considered a home-cooked restaurant. Contacting the current situation of the Hongguang FRP Factory, which was introduced by the tricycle driver, Qin Hai could understand that even Liu Jie, as the factory director, would not dare to treat guests in a place that was too high-end, so he could only make do with it here.

Thinking of this, Qin Hai smiled slightly, and said: "Hehe, when you go to a place, you have to eat something unique, and the decoration of the facade is all fake."

Liu Jie hurriedly echoed: "Boss Qin is right, we don't talk about this ostentation, the main thing is to have a special feature."

The two laughed tacitly, opened the door and entered the restaurant, Heizi and Liu Jie's driver followed behind them and also went in. There were not many people eating in the restaurant. The waiter took them to a table by the window and sat down, handing out a simple menu.

Liu Jie was obviously quite familiar with this restaurant, and after a little politeness to Qin Hai, he ordered six dishes deftly, ordered local white wine, and ordered the waiter to hurry up and serve the wine.

"President Qin, we haven't seen each other for three years, right?" Liu Jie asked Qin Hai while waiting for the food to be served.

"It's been more than three years. The last time we met was in Pujiang, when the bidding for Pusang's auto materials was held." Qin Hai said.

When Qin Hai mentioned the Pusang car, Liu Jie looked frustrated and said, "Oh, Mr. Qin, I don't care if you don't mention the Pussan car. When you mention it, I really feel like wiping my neck." Yes. Back then, when you, Mr. Qin, persuaded us to cooperate with the Automobile Localization Office and engage in automotive materials, we were all fascinated by lard, and even regarded your kindness as a donkey’s liver and lungs. I remember you warned us at that time We, we said that we will definitely regret it for a few years, look now, don't we regret it?"

Qin Hai didn't come to Jintang here to hear Liu Jie's confession. He smiled and said, "No one can predict the changes in the market. I just said it casually at the time, but I didn't expect it to come true now." .By the way, Director Liu, I heard that the situation of Hongguang Factory is not very good now, can you introduce it?"

"What are you introducing? We have stopped working." Liu Jie said, "Our products have been manufactured consistently for decades without innovation. In addition to aging equipment, small production scale and high cost, they are not comparable to those in Beijing and Pujiang. For large enterprises, the factory has been out of business for more than half a year now, and the wages of workers are all maintained by bank loans."

"Is it the same situation with the factory director?" Qin Hai asked.

"Who? Yu Kexiu?" Liu Jie was stunned for a moment, and then thought that Qin Hai only knew Yu Kexiu, the factory director in Jintang. He said: "I am older than the situation over there. Our factory has a storefront in the city, and now it is rented out to southerners for business, and we can still collect some rent a year. Look at the oil in my car. If you treat Mr. Qin to a meal, you can use this rent to pay for it. Old Yu has no money to live on, and even Lao Yu himself is about to go to three rounds to earn money for meals."

"The city doesn't care?" Qin Hai asked again.

Liu Jie said: "How to manage in the city? There are so many enterprises in the city, few earn money, and almost 70% to 80% stop working. The city has set up a loss reduction office, but the products of our enterprises are not competitive. No office is going to bring us back from the dead."

At this point, the waiter brought the food and wine. Liu Jie's driver winked, snatched the wine bottle, first poured wine for Qin Hai and Liu Jie, and then poured wine for Heizi. He himself couldn't drink because he had to drive, but he just poured some boiled water into the wine glass so that he could accompany everyone while they were drinking.

Liu Jie waited for the driver to finish pouring the wine, raised the wine glass, and said, "Boss Qin, and Xiao Fu, I would like to toast you first, and welcome you to Jintang as guests. The drinks and dishes are very simple, but my old Liu's heart is sincere Yes, I won’t say anything superfluous, let’s do it first as a respect.”

Seeing his politeness, Qin Hai quickly picked up his wine glass and drank the wine with Liu Jie. Before Liu Jie could get the wine glass, Heizi had already taken the wine bottle and filled Liu Jie with wine.

Next, it was naturally Qin Hai's turn to toast, followed by Hei Zi, Liu Jie's driver saw this and gestured to everyone with his cup filled with boiled water, which was a cutscene.

After a few glasses of wine, Liu Jie's face turned slightly red, and he asked Qin Hai through the strength of the wine: "Mr. Qin, did you like our companies when you came to Jintang this time? Take this opportunity to steal the bottom?"

"Where did you say that?" Qin Hai smiled, "I've only arrived in Jintang this afternoon, so how does Director Liu know what I'm here for?"

Liu Jie squinted his eyes and said, "Boss Qin, we are old acquaintances. You still keep this from me? It's true that you just arrived in Jintang, but Xiao Fu followed some Liu factory director a while ago. Old Yu is there, I can't hide this matter from my eyes. I heard from Old Yu that the director Liu seems to have something to do with you, how could you not know what he is doing in Jintang?"

Qin Haidao: "Director Liu and I can be regarded as partners, but he came to Jintang and discussed it with me. Director Liu, I heard that Director Liu and Director Yu had a bad conversation, you know Is it why?"

"Didn't Xiao Fu follow Director Liu all the time? He didn't tell you?" Liu Jie asked.

Qin Hai shook his head: "Xiao Fu is not in charge of business at my place, but mainly helps me with some administrative matters, so he doesn't know much about what Factory Manager Liu and Factory Manager Yu talked about."

Qin Hai's words were of course not true. On the surface, Heizi looked like a little servant running errands, but in fact he could see many things very clearly. Regarding the differences between Liu Yaozhong and Yu Kexiu, Heizi had already reported to Qin Hai. However, Qin Hai wanted to hear Liu Jie's opinion on this matter, so he concealed the role of Heizi.

Liu Jie believed Qin Hai's words to some extent, he sighed, and said, "Oh, this man is too serious. He insisted that Factory Manager Liu take over the lives of all the workers in the Jinnan Factory, Even retired workers are no exception, how can there be such a good thing? The retired workers have sacrificed their lives for the country, not for your private boss, which private boss is willing to accept these retired workers?"

"Why, take over the factory, can we ignore the retired workers?" Qin Hai asked sharply.

Liu Jie said: "In the past, a few southerners came to Jintang and bought several state-owned factories. Their method was to keep all the useful workers and ignore the useless ones. As for the retired workers, they directly pushed them to the city government. gone."

"The city government won't take care of it. My sister-in-law and her parents are retired workers from those factories. They haven't paid their pensions for more than a year. They are going to go to the city government to make trouble these two days." The driver interjected . The rules between leaders and subordinates in state-owned enterprises are not so strict. When the leaders are chatting, it is normal for subordinates to interrupt.

Qin Hai turned to the driver and asked, "Is this the first time they've gone to trouble?"

The driver said: "No, there have been several troubles in the past. Every time there is a trouble, the city will reissue a few months, but it is said that it is a few months, which is equivalent to the money of the past month. The city said It’s 30% every month.”

"Continuing like this is not a long-term solution." Qin Hai said.

Liu Jie sneered and said, "I can't think of any long-term solution now. If it can be delayed for a month, it will be a month. If I were Lao Yu, I would definitely not bother with retired workers. Factory Manager Liu can control as many people as he wants. How many people are in charge first. In this way, there will be fewer people left, and won’t it be easier to ask the city for money?”

In order to make room for foreign friends, Chengzi decided to leave Beijing tomorrow to go out. Today, he can only do a change, and tomorrow he will be ready to code in the hotel...