Chapter 75 Negotiating Conditions

"The factory director is looking for me? What's the matter?" Xu Qiang asked after a moment of hesitation.

"Who knows?" Sun Zhanwu patted the dirt off his trouser legs and said, "In the morning, the director's secretary Wang Bo came to the dormitory. When he saw you were not there, he asked everyone one by one. I happened to have just finished taking a shit and came out of the toilet, so I hurried back to call you."

"Do you want me to become a regular employee?"

"Why are you just daydreaming?" Sun Zhanwu rolled his eyes at Xu Qiang and continued, "Based on your performance in the workshop during this period, it's a blessing that you are not fired. You still want to become a regular employee..."

"Why did you fire me?"

"Why do you say that? The squad leader asked you to work more, and that's actually for your own good. As long as you work more, there will be a reason for you to become a regular employee in the future. But you, on the other hand, insist on going against him!" Sun Zhanwu looked very stubborn.

"I didn't go against him. The workshop stipulates a certain amount of work to be done every day, but I didn't do less than that at all." Xu Qiang looked unconvinced and said, "Uncle Sun, you do the most work in our workshop every day, but has the factory made you a regular employee yet?"

"You..." Sun Zhanwu was speechless for a moment, and said: "I know how many leaders I have worked for. Director Lin sometimes praises me at the class meeting. If there is a vacancy, he will definitely think of me..."

There is no such thing as "painting the pie" these days. After all, in an era of material scarcity, honors and rewards were the mainstream. Sometimes a few words of praise from the leader were enough to make many workers full of motivation.

"Okay, okay, okay! I wish you success in becoming a regular employee in the future." Xu Qiang was too lazy to talk to him, so he got on his bike and headed for the factory.

Along the way, Sun Zhanwu kept chattering, basically telling Xu Qiang to admit his mistakes when he met the leader later, and to work harder in the future so that the leader's impression of him would change.

At this time, Xu Qiang was also wondering why the factory director would look for him, but he still couldn't figure it out.

The two had only met once before, on the first day Xu Qiang reported to the factory. Liu Biao was very polite to him at that time, but they never met again since then.

As for the factory's previous military-to-civilian product collection activity, the results are out, and logically it has nothing to do with him.

Riding his bike and thinking all the way, Xu Qiang soon arrived at the factory's office building.

"Xu Qiang is here, come and sit down!"

When Liu Biao, who was reviewing documents, saw Xu Qiang appear at the door of his office, his eyes suddenly lit up and he smiled and asked Xu Qiang to sit down.

"Director Liu, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Seeing the smile on Liu Biao's face, Xu Qiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and asked.

"Xiao Xu, did you really complete the last military-to-civilian technical transformation plan? No one else helped you?" Liu Biao asked in a gentle tone.

"No, I did it all by myself." Xu Qiang replied simply.

"You're fine!" Liu Biao nodded, and then said, "I have good news to tell you. In our factory's military-to-civilian product solicitation activity this time, only your proposal was favored by provincial experts. Next, the two of us will go to the provincial defense industry office to attend a meeting. If everything goes well, the province will allocate funds to us, and your proposal can be implemented..."

"That's great!" Hearing this, Xu Qiang's eyes suddenly lit up. "But don't be too happy too soon. This time we are just going to the provincial government for a meeting. It is still unknown whether the final plan will be approved or not. So you need to explain your technical plan to them in front of many experts. Only by convincing them can our factory get the grant!" Facing Xu Qiang, Liu Biao stated his intention very straightforwardly.

"Director Liu, I will try my best to live up to the factory's expectations!" Xu Qiang said seriously.

For Xu Qiang, this trip to the provincial meeting is definitely a good opportunity to change his current destiny, and he will definitely do his best.

"We only have two days to prepare. The night after tomorrow, you and I will take the train to the province together. No matter what, we must succeed!"

"Director Liu, I have a small request..."

"any request?"

"It's like this. My father worked in the factory for more than ten years, but when he died, he was not even officially employed..." When he said this, Xu Qiang's face looked a little gloomy. He continued, "My mother hoped that I could become a regular worker in her life, so that she would feel relieved and it could also comfort my father's spirit in heaven..."

Don't use it if you have the chance, it will be wasted if it expires.

Since Liu Biao has said this, Xu Qiang naturally cannot miss this opportunity.

In fact, at present, Xu Qiang does not rely on the salary from the factory to make money, but he needs a social identity, especially in this era, people with units and those without units are completely two classes. In the same way, if they commit crimes in society, if it is a big crime, it will be fine, but if it is just a small crime, the factory can protect them.

In the late 70s, my country's public security began to face severe challenges, and the number of cases filed increased year by year. Theft and robbery against important enterprises and mining areas gradually increased. Under such circumstances, in order to strengthen the protection of various important enterprises, factories, mining areas, and financial institutions, the state issued the "Implementation Plan for the Establishment of Economic Police" at the beginning of this year and reorganized the economic police force.

Economic police were under the dual management of both the public security organs and their respective units, which was a clear manifestation of the times. At that time, each important institution, enterprise, factory and mining area had a security department or security office responsible for managing the economic police.

The Security Department of Shengli Machinery Factory has its own police station and economic police, which are responsible for guarding the factory and surrounding areas. The economic police are under the dual management of both the public security organs and their respective units, which means that the factory has certain law enforcement powers.

If a theft, fight or other public security incident occurs in the living quarters of a factory or mining area, the security department or security office can handle it without going to the police station. Only when a robbery, rape or other major incident occurs will it be reported to the public security organ.

Therefore, becoming a formal employee of the factory is like having a small "amulet", which has a certain protective effect on Xu Qiang's business.

Moreover, when doing business with local farmers, if they know that you are a regular employee of the factory, they will definitely look upon you with higher regard.

"Okay, if this is really successful, I will prioritize your regularization issue!" Liu Biao said.

"By the way, Director Liu, I have another request..." Xu Qiang obviously wanted to take the opportunity to seek more benefits.

"Is there anything else?" At this moment, Liu Biao had already realized that Xu Qiang was not someone who could be easily dealt with.

"I am currently a porter in the workshop. I have a heavy workload every day, and I also have to take time out to plan technical improvement plans for our factory." Xu Qiang paused, and then said, "Doing both physical and mental labor at the same time is very harmful to my body, so I hope to change to another job, so that I can have time to provide more technical improvement plans for the factory..."

"What kind of injury is that? How can a young person have so many problems? Don't you just want to move to a place where the work is easier?" Liu Biao directly exposed Xu Qiang's intention and said, "As long as our plan can be approved by the superiors this time, I can meet your requirements, but remember, if you mess up, don't think too much about other things, just be a porter!"

(End of this chapter)