After Director Li said this, he stopped talking. Instead, he patted Cao Zhiqiang on the shoulder again and asked Cao Zhiqiang to continue to sit there and think about it. He himself left the factory director's office directly, not knowing what he was doing outside.

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After Director Li left the office and Cao Zhiqiang was the only one left here, Cao Zhiqiang immediately frowned.

Originally I just wanted to talk about Niu Shufen, but suddenly Director Li drew a big picture.

Be your own backing? Let it go and do it? The current third-in-command of the factory? The future director of the factory with real power?

I'll go ahead and draw these big cakes one by one. No normal person would believe it.

But after thinking about it, it seems that it’s not entirely a big cake.

It's hard to say who the future factory director will be, but when it comes to being his own backer...hasn't he always done that?

Even if he is not my backer, I still have Secretary Dong behind me, and there are also Uncle Xu and Uncle Wang who are more awesome than Secretary Dong.

Could it be that because he knew that his weight was not enough, he added another piece of pie to seduce me with the future director of the factory?

Wait, that's not right either.

If it was just to deceive me, there was no need for him to say so much, especially to expose his shortcomings?

Even if he wants to help me deal with Niu Shufen, with his status and skill, there is no need to talk about these old things, especially the fact that he once protected Niu Shufen?

But he just told me this as soon as he came up. This was obviously an attempt to give me an excuse.

Generally, this is done to win people's trust, similar to applying for a certificate, but this is usually done to seek talents.

In other words, what Director Li just said is actually true? Does he really want something from himself?

Or does he really regard me as the hope and savior of the entire factory?

Impossible? This is too fantasy.

Smiling and shaking his head, Cao Zhiqiang thought this inference was so funny.

That was Director Li, the nominal second-in-command of the factory, but the actual first-in-command.

Director Li actually makes the final decision on all matters in Hongguang Machinery Factory.

As for Secretary Dong, although he is now the top leader, he usually doesn't care about things and doesn't know much about business. Therefore, unless there are major decisions, Secretary Dong will be asked to take action.

In other words, in the entire factory, the person with the most actual power is Director Li, and no one else.

Even if Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li have different opinions, if there is a collective vote in the end, Director Li will probably win, because almost everyone in the entire factory is Director Li's employee.

However, Factory Director Li has a disadvantage, that is, Director Li climbed up from below, and his connections at the top are not enough.

This is different from Secretary Dong.

Secretary Dong parachuted down from above and was originally a political cadre of the army.

Unlike the gentle and gentle political cadres like Zhao Gang, Secretary Dong is said to be the kind of violent cadre who is very passionate and Li Yunlong, who rushes into the position with a submachine gun and yells "Follow me".

It is precisely because of this characteristic that he is particularly popular in the army. From leaders to soldiers, everyone is happy to work with him.

It is said that if he had not been so impulsive, he would have been made a commander in charge rather than a political cadre.

Cao Zhiqiang once inquired about Secretary Dong's history and learned that Secretary Dong only changed his job and became a secretary in the factory after the Peninsular War, or to be precise, during the Fourth Great Disarmament.

Many people remember the million-million-dollar disarmament in the 1980s, but they don’t know that as early as the founding of the People’s Republic of China, especially after the Peninsular War, the country had carried out several major disarmaments in succession, and the intensity was much greater than that in the 1980s.

The one-million-dollar disarmament in the 1980s was only one million. The early major disarmament in China was often two or three million.

However, those who were disarmed in the early stages were generally assigned to local positions as cadres.

For example, Secretary Dong arranged to join the Hongguang Machinery Factory and became the top secretary.

At that time, the main job of Hongguang Machinery Factory was to supply ordnance parts to relevant departments. It was a very important factory, so Secretary Dong was asked to come over.

From this perspective, Secretary Dong is a proper airborne cadre, without any foundation or connections in the machinery factory.

However, Secretary Dong's connections at the top are very powerful.

Although Secretary Dong's connections in the Metallurgical Department are average, his connections in the army can be extensive.

As for Hongguang Machinery Factory, it happens to be mainly a unit that supplies military products.

For example, some parts of the 59 tank and some parts of the Type 63 armored vehicle are all produced by Hongguang Machinery Factory.

In the early days, even train wheels, Hongguang Machinery Factory was one of the manufacturers.

It can be said that Secretary Dong has no foundation in the machinery factory, but his status is there and he has a good relationship with the military industry unit, so it is fine for him not to speak. Whenever he speaks, he will usually not be ignored.

Fortunately, Secretary Dong is a pretty decent person, and he can deal with Factory Director Li fairly well. The two of them have a pretty good personal relationship, and they discuss everything.

Later, Secretary Dong completely handed over the factory affairs to Director Li. He usually acted as the boss and only came out to show off his presence when certain situations required his intervention.

In the past, Secretary Dong was responsible for handling the leaders above and the leaders of fraternal units, focusing on diplomacy.

Director Li, on the other hand, focuses on the internal affairs of the factory and pays attention to internal affairs.

It can be said that Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li are well-known generals. They cooperate very closely and have a very high level of mutual trust. There is no conflict between them.

Basically, Secretary Dong will rarely raise objections to what Director Li wants to do, and vice versa.

Director Li is now saying that he will do his best to support his rise to the position. If this is true, it means that Secretary Dong has also acquiesced or agreed.

In a factory, if the first-ranking secretary and the second-ranking factory director work together to recommend a person to be the new factory director, even if the person is young and has low qualifications, it is not impossible.

After all, Director Li is right, today is different from the past.

Now is the early stage of reform, a time of chaos.

That’s why someone put forward the idea of ​​crossing the river by feeling the stones, trying boldly, breaking through boldly, and making sure to fight your way through the river.

Since that sentence is the bottom line, it is not impossible for the first and second leaders in the small circle of Hongguang Machinery Factory to jointly push themselves to become the director of the factory.

But the question is, are you willing to be the factory director?

In other words, is it worthwhile to be the director of this factory yourself?

You must know that when Cao Zhiqiang entered Hongguang Machinery Factory, he came to hug his thighs and seek support. He definitely did not do it to inherit his parents' legacy or to love the factory as his home.

Because at that time, Cao Zhiqiang was a second-rate man. If he had not entered the factory as a worker early, he would have continued to be unemployed and would have been arrested sooner or later.

There were also people like Wei Dajun, whom Cao Zhiqiang could not resist at that time.

If Cao Zhiqiang hadn't entered the factory early, Wei Dajun and his gang wouldn't have waited so long to block him halfway, and they would have probably come to him to continue doing bad things with him.

Without the machinery factory as a backend, Cao Zhiqiang would not have dared to easily make plans and actions to frame Wei's army before, because it was too dangerous.

On the contrary, if you have a machinery factory as a backend and a worker identity, and then frame Wei Dajun, even if there are some twists and turns in the process, there will be no problem in the end.

Also, the essence of what Cao Zhiqiang did later, including his writing poetry, earning royalties, and later sharing of the royalties, was because he was a regular worker in a state-owned enterprise, even though he was still an intern at the time.

Although the magazine theoretically treats all contributors equally, in practice it is impossible to treat them equally.

For example, if an important leading cadre comes to submit an article to a magazine, can you not pay attention to it?

No matter how poorly written the boss's manuscript is, even if you can't include it for publication, you should at least write a tactful reply to explain it, so as not to make the boss angry.

But for the same bad manuscript, if an ordinary worker submitted it, he would probably not even bother to reply.

As for whether an unemployed vagrant without an employer can successfully pass the preliminary selection and enter the eyes of a formal review editor, that's two questions.

Even if you, an unemployed vagrant, write something very good and the editor likes it, then at most you will be paid according to the rules.

If you want to play with the royalty system of the share-sharing model, you are really thinking too much.

But Cao Zhiqiang succeeded.

If it weren't for the royalty system, which quickly brought Cao Zhiqiang his first pot of gold, he wouldn't have been able to get where he is today in the short term.

In other words, cheating has brought excellent content to Cao Zhiqiang, but without a platform to support him, he would not be able to quickly become a famous poet.

In this day and age, magazines also look at people’s background when selecting people.

An unemployed second-rater, no matter how good his writing is, will not be praised by a magazine of the level of "Poetry Magazine".

But if you are a glorious state-owned enterprise worker, it will be different.

In other words, Cao Zhiqiang had no feelings for the Hongguang Machinery Factory where his parents worked before. He came here purely to find a partner, improve his social status, and protect his life and property.

And because most of the content provided by the system plug-in is biased toward books and audiovisuals, Cao Zhiqiang’s initial goal of making money was the publishing industry.

In the early days, Cao Zhiqiang actually had no intention of starting a publishing house. It was after he met editor Yu Deli and thought of the big leader behind Silly Pillar that he wanted to give it a try. If he wanted to start with the hard things first and then the easy ones, he wanted to start the publishing house first.

Come out and try your best to publish your own works.

To a certain extent, the person Cao Zhiqiang was studying at the time was the founder of "The Fairy Tale King", and he also wanted to build a publishing house or magazine that fully served himself.

For Cao Zhiqiang at that time, it was actually easy to run a magazine, but the publishing house was difficult.

But the magazine is too single-minded and not as comprehensive as the publishing house.

Magazine publishers can only publish magazines.

But a publishing house can not only run a magazine, but also publish books, set up an audio-visual company to produce records, and even establish its own sales channels. It is a proper top-level platform.

Relying on Shazhu's relationship, Cao Zhiqiang's reputation, and some of his real abilities, he tried his best to perform in front of his leaders, and finally gained their approval and was willing to give it a try.

But the main reason is that the man behind Silly Pillar, Uncle Xu, is the boss of the metallurgical system, and Cao Zhiqiang is from Hongguang Machinery Factory, a company directly under the Ministry of Metallurgy. They are actually a family.
To be continued...