"Pay close attention to agricultural production, vigorously develop industry, advance industry and agriculture side by side, focus on joint management, and move forward quickly to everything."
This is something that has been set as a top priority by departments at all levels across the country.
Only by improving agricultural production can the masses have food to eat; and by vigorously developing industry, can we move quickly towards the highest goal.
There are currently more than 3,000 counties in the country.
These include special plans such as banners, clans, and districts that are equivalent to county-level administrative plans. They are all striving to develop the county economy and strive to significantly improve the living standards of the broad masses of the people.
The "Industrial Office" department came into being under this background.
Luo Xuan's new position is "director [acting] of the Industrial Office of Shilipu Commune, Zhimi County".
At the same time, Luo Xuan naturally had to step down from his position as "warehousekeeper of the Shilipu production team".
It's a pity that the entire Shilipu production team members and cadres all know that the hole in the warehouse of their own production team is probably a bit big.
Large or at least small families, even if they sell out all their belongings, they can't make up even a small amount.
Therefore, in the Shilipu production team, no one dared to take over the position of warehouse keeper in the production team, which is said to be a fat job, but in fact it is a big troublesome position.
In the end, Luo Xuan secretly took on the job of warehouse keeper.
"County economy" has a characteristic: the prominent pursuit of the word "whole".
If other people have fertilizer plants, we must have them too. If other counties have machinery plants? Then we can’t do without this.
Now almost every county is working hard to open wineries, brick factories, cement factories, furniture factories, textile factories, silk reeling factories, lumber factories, nitrogen fertilizer factories, foundries, and glass factories.
In order to meet the energy needs of these factories and enterprises, various counties are even building steel plants, thermal power stations, and hydropower stations with huge investments.
Regardless of this period, it has been 20 years since we entered the new society.
In fact, the ideological concept of pursuing "doing everything without asking for help" is still very strong in our hearts.
In fact, this stems from the consciousness of small farmers: as long as something can be produced at home, they will never spend money to buy it outside.
——Even if the workmanship is rough, even if the energy consumption is huge and the cost is high, we don’t even care if the quality is poor.
This is derived from a mentality: first solve the problem of having and not having, and resolutely prevent the wealth from flowing to other people's fields.
In everyone's understanding, only when the county economy is well developed can the backbone be strengthened: as long as there are these factories in your county, you can not only increase fiscal revenue.
It can also solve the employment problem of the increasing number of unemployed young people who have just entered society.
Only if it achieves "complete categories".
Only then can it be considered "self-sufficient" and in line with the spirit of "self-reliance".
As for these industrial and mining enterprises, don’t ask about their economic benefits, just ask them: they are very good!
——I haven’t seen any factory, no matter whether it smokes or not. The workers there are guaranteed to receive monthly wages, not a penny less.
This is enough to prove that all factories and mining enterprises have very good economic benefits.
[Actually, the profits of those companies with good economic returns are used to subsidize those companies that are losing money.]
[The ideas of the leaders of the commune are very simple and simple, so simple that people don’t know how to evaluate their behavior.
What they are thinking is: We must pursue fairness and let everyone have food to eat.
Whether a company makes money or not, it must at least ensure that workers have enough to eat.]
If any industrial and mining enterprise in your county produces unsalable products,
Then hold a meeting and then issue a document: Similar products produced in other counties and cities are not allowed to enter our county.
With this protective cover stamped with a seal, can we still sell our own products?
snort!!
It is said that there are three things a new official needs to do when taking office.
The first thing Luo Xuan did when he took office as "Director of the Industrial Office" was not to plan to open a new factory.
Instead, we took drastic measures to abolish some existing inefficient enterprises in Shilipu Commune.
On this day, in the office of the deputy director of the commune, there were sounds of objects being thrown and enamel teapots being smashed.
What followed was an angry roar: "What the hell! What a fool! What a fool!!!"
Lao Liang, deputy director of the commune, was originally in charge of the industrial and mining enterprises affiliated to the commune.
Moreover, Deputy Director Liang didn't like Luo Xuan in the first place: This thorny person who doesn't listen to greetings at such a young age has now become the director of the Industrial Office?
Become your colleague?
Not to mention anything else, just walking in and out of the commune every day, you can't avoid bumping into each other.
Thinking about Deputy Director Liang, I feel awkward!
"Comrade Luo Xuan, do you know how to do grassroots management work?"
As soon as Luo Xuan came up, the three axes fell on the heads of three enterprises: "Shilipu Commune Sand Factory", "Agricultural Tools and Iron Factory", and "Timber Factory".
Deputy Director Liang couldn't bear it anymore and was so angry that he rushed straight into Luo Xuan's office, smashed the pot and banged the table and asked sternly: "These three factories are old factories that have been in operation for more than 10 years.
The cadres and workers there are dedicated and dedicated.
Others have devoted their youth to their beloved companies, and now you actually plan to withdraw these factories? Why?!"
"That's not called a factory. To be precise, it can only be called a small workshop.
Moreover, it is still the kind of small workshop that relies on the commune’s financial resources to continuously provide them with blood transfusions to survive.”
Luo Xuan sat on the chair, not paying attention to the scolding of Deputy Director Liang, who was blushing and thick-necked with anger: "Deputy Director Liang, we are not just two men in the village arguing.
We are discussing work matters, can you sit down and talk about it carefully?"
"I'm not in the mood!"
Deputy Director Liang asked angrily: "Comrade Luo Xuan, let me ask you a question.
Have you considered the feelings of the workers in these three factories? How much sweat and effort did the cadres and workers in these factories put in to build these factories?"
Luo Xuan asked calmly: "Then, have they finally completed these small workshops? How much profit do they turn over to the commune's finance every year?
Not a penny!
Not only that, these three factories have to allocate a large amount of special funds from the commune's finances every year to subsidize them, pay them wages, and support the idle people."
Feeding leisure people?
This extremely arrogant young man actually dared to call the cadres and workers in these three factories "idlers"??
Deputy Director Liang was completely shocked by these words.
During this period, state-owned units belonging to the same county and the same commune did not matter whether the other unit's economic benefits were good or bad.
All cadres and workers refer to each other as "comrade".
Call the other party's work unit "brother unit"
When everyone looks at each other, they don't judge each other based on their unit economic performance or salary level.
But in a way: I am also an employee of a state-owned unit; others, like us, are the breadwinners!
If the performance of a certain factory is really poor, what does it matter to an individual?
Anyway, the financial affairs of these cadres and workers will be taken care of till the end.
If a certain factory is half-dead, the cadres and employees working there won't care too much: at worst, they can just transfer themselves to another prosperous state-owned enterprise to work in the factory.
An iron camp and flowing soldiers.
If this camp is ruined, just move to another place. Anyway, your salary level is based on your working years, your technical title, and your administrative level.
What a big deal?!
Deputy Director Liang let out a long breath and said, "Huh——".
Then he slowly sat on the chair and looked at Luo Xuan, who didn't know the heights of the sky, with cold eyes.
The seriousness of the situation now has exceeded Deputy Director Liang's imagination, so he is not as angry and furious as before.
"Comrade Luo Xuan, I can understand you, a young man who is eager to achieve results as soon as possible!
I tend to be in a hurry when I start doing things, so I don’t think so comprehensively, which is understandable.”
Deputy Director Liang stared into Luo Xuan's eyes and warned seriously: "But have you ever thought about what will happen to the livelihoods of hundreds of cadres and workers if these three factories are abolished?"
Luo Xuan picked up the report on the table and handed it over: "How can there be hundreds of cadres and employees?
There are 17 employees in the sand foundry, 9 craftsmen in the farm tools and ironworks factory, and 29 in the lumber factory.
These three factories have a total of 55 active cadres, employees, and retired personnel."
“That is also a matter of livelihood for dozens of cadres and workers, and involves their emotional issues!!
Comrade Luo Xuan, please pay more attention to your methods when you speak and do things in the future."
Deputy Director Liang did not look at the report, but said coldly: "Idle people? Use such words to describe our cadres and workers? Comrade Luo Xuan, this kind of thinking of yours is very dangerous."
"Danger? Haha"
Luo Xuan picked up another report and pushed it over: "There are 17 cadres and employees in the sand foundry, including 9 managers, 2 external procurement, and 6 actual workshop employees.
I have carefully read the report of the sand foundry.
In the past five years, this sand foundry has received an average of 17 orders per month for sand castings, and the monthly profit has not exceeded 100 yuan.
Their working hours are listed as 8 hours in the "Click to Order" list, but in fact, the average working time of workshop employees does not exceed 1 hour."
Luo Xuan asked Deputy Director Liang: "If you work for 1 hour, why should you pay them 8 hours of work if there are droughts or floods?"
"What does this have to do with you?"
Deputy Director Liang said angrily: "The wages of these employees are paid in full by the commune finance in accordance with relevant regulations, according to their length of service and professional titles. You, the director of the Industrial Office, have no right to interfere in these matters!
Comrade Luo Xuan, don’t forget that these enterprises also undertake other things!”
Luo Xuan shook his head: "Deputy Director Liang, you are no longer an expert in business management and the economic construction of a commune, aren't you?"
"If he wants to take on more, he must first make good profits from these factories and survive on his own.
If these factories were to operate on their own, they would need financial support from our commune to survive.
So how big a load can it take?"
Luo Xuan chuckled: "If there were not those enterprises with good profits that honestly handed over the profits they created to the commune's finances,
Where does the money come from from the commune's finances to pay them wages?
If all enterprises do not pursue economic benefits and just muddle along and wait to die, sooner or later they will be in big trouble!
By then, let alone those private teachers, the meager wages of public teachers will be delayed, and I am afraid that even you and I will not be able to be paid."
Teachers' wages have been deducted and owed to a certain extent. This kind of thing actually happens frequently.
Including the salaries of commune officers and cadres, once there is any natural disaster or major traffic accident.
In fact, the wages of these cadres in the commune will also be owed.
Even "donate" part of it to deal with these emergencies
Deputy Director Liang, who knew this well, was still unconvinced: "The factory's efficiency is not good, so what?
There are always ways to solve difficulties when we encounter them. If that doesn't work, we can still ask for support from the Zhimi County Finance Department."
Luo Xuan nodded: "Yes, if Zhizhimi can't solve it financially, you can still ask for help from the Finance Bureau of Tuocheng District, right?
In your opinion, after we encounter major difficulties, we can still ask for support level by level, right?"
Just now,
This Deputy Director Liang said that his thoughts are dangerous.
Now Luo Xuan immediately returned it to him: "So what about the self-reliance you always promised? What about the self-sufficiency you promised?
Or are you just shouting about these things?
But in fact, deep down in your mind, you still feel that there is a place to go for support anyway, so there is nothing to worry about just waiting to die.
Deputy Director Liang, your wait-and-fuck mentality is unacceptable!"
"call--"
Deputy Director Liang looked at the cave roof and was speechless for a moment.
In fact, the disagreement between Luo Xuan and Deputy Director Liang just now was a conflict between "new and old" ideas.
According to Deputy Director Liang’s understanding: the entire Zhimi County is a big collective.
If we look specifically at Shilipu Commune, then all the industrial and mining enterprises in Shilipu Commune are also a whole.
Among them, it is only natural for factories with good profits to use their profits to help factories with poor profits or even losses.
——To ensure that all employees have food to eat and receive wages, shouldn’t this be a matter of course?
But Luo Xuan didn't think so.
For those workers in the factory, their wages have nothing to do with the efficiency of the factory.
If this development continues, it will lead to dissatisfaction among factory workers who have good profits and plenty of work to do, while workers in factories that are dilapidated and about to collapse will be bored every day.
But the salary someone else gets at the end of the month is still the same as the salary I get after working hard for a month.
Even more than because they have a higher level and longer working experience than themselves, so they will get more in the end.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes:
Over time, if things continue to develop like this, people will feel that those factory workers have a lot of orders and heavy production tasks.
In the bottom of their hearts, do they hope that their factory will be prosperous? Or would it be better for this factory to be half-dead?
I'm afraid there will be more employees who are willing to choose the latter.
Anyway,
As long as the factory's brand remains intact, the salary schedules of the factory employees will still be there, and it will not affect their fixed wages.
How can this be done?
In the office, neither Luo Xuan nor Deputy Director Liang could convince the other.
At this moment,
The director of the commune's finance office pushed open the door and declared his position as soon as he entered: "I support the removal of these three small factories."
Deputy Director Liang frowned.
The director of the Finance Office smiled bitterly at him: "Deputy Director Liang, as the old saying goes, if you are not a master, you don't know how expensive oil, salt, firewood and rice are.
Due to the aftermath of the flood this time, the commune's finances are already stretched to the limit! If we continue to support the sand foundry and lumber mill like this, I can't bear it!"
It is difficult for a rich man to be a man without money.
In Shilipu Commune, the situation is actually the same: no money, but necessary hard expenses have to be allocated in full every month.
In order to solve this problem, in the end the only option is to increase the withdrawals from the production team.
But now it is the spring plowing season, and the production team needs to buy fertilizer seeds. It is a time when money is urgently needed.
In addition, most of the production teams have already suffered considerable losses in this flood.
At this time, it was considered good that they did not ask for money from the commune's finance. How could the commune dare to ask the production team for "fund-raising"?
After thinking about it carefully,
Deputy Director Liang asked: "Well, Luo Xuan, tell me, how should the employees in these three factories that have been laid off be accommodated?"
“We will retrain them in skills and arrange to work in the newly built factories.
The original managers had their original positions disrupted and re-arranged on the basis of merit.
Guys who don’t have that ability will all work in my workshop, no matter whose family they are related to, it’s the same!”
Luo Xuan had already planned for this, "The forest coverage here is already low, so what do we need that shabby lumber factory for?
Shilipu Commune is only 10 miles away from Zhimi County. What kind of work can't be accepted by the large sand foundry in this county?
Therefore, it is normal for our commune’s sand foundry to be removed just because it was a deaf ear.”
Abolish the original 3 small factories and open a new one?
Deputy Director Liang and the Director of the Finance Office looked at each other: It seems that this guy Luo Xuan is going to make a big fuss again.
